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The Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) on Friday announced that the pension fund was now offering an emergency loan to members and pensioners in six regions hit by Typhoon Odette.
In an advisory on Monday, the SSS said the Calamity Assistance Package will include a Calamity Loan Assistance Program where qualified members can avail of loans equivalent to one month of their salary credit, based on the average of their last 12 monthly salary credits.
(File photo) MANILA - Some 97,500 families in various provinces affected by the onslaught of Typhoon Odette have already received a total of PHP487 million in "immediate" cash assistance from the National Housing Authority (NHA). At the Laging Handa briefing on Thursday, Secretary Eduardo del Rosario, head of the Department of Human Settlement and Urban Development (DHSUD), said there were 406,521 partially and 181,258 totally destroyed houses from different areas, based on the initial assessment of the housing sector as of January 5. These destroyed houses were situated in the regions of Mimaropa, Western Visayas, Central Visayas, Eastern Visayas, Zamboanga Peninsula, Northern Mindanao, Davao, Soccsksargen, Caraga and Bangsamoro Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao (BARMM). Del Rosario said the government, in coordination with the US Agency for International Development and the International Organization for Migration, has provided 5,598 shelter-grade tarpaulin sheets used b
Nearly 600,000 houses were either partially or totally damaged by Typhoon “Odette” (international code name Rai), according to the latest data obtained by the Department of Human Settlements and Urban Development (DHSUD). In a televised briefing, DHSUD Secretary Eduardo del Rosario said a total of 587,779 houses were partially or…