IN celebration of the Elderly Filipino Week, three-term senator, now Deputy Speaker Loren Legarda renewed her call for stronger implementation of Republic Act 9994, or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010, which she principally authored. “I authored the law in the 14th Congress to provide additional benefits and privileges…
MAHALAGA SI LOLA. Rosalia D. Bantilan of Cauayan, Negros Occidental who turned 100 years old on Sept. 4, 2021, receives her cash gift of PHP100,000 from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in this undated photo. Doyien C. Layson, DSWD 6 (Western Visayas) focal person for centenarians, said on Friday (Oct. 8, 2021) this year they have already released cash gifts to 131 centenarians.(Photo courtesy of Doyien C. Layson/DSWD-6) ILOILO CITY - The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has released cash gifts to 131 centenarians from Western Visayas from February to September this year. Doyien C. Layson, DSWD-6 (Western Visayas) focal person for centenarians, said in an interview Friday that 24 of them had died before receiving their cash gifts of PHP100,000 each. The money was instead released to their nearest relative. A total of 41 recipients were from Iloilo; 26 from Capiz; 15 each from Aklan and Antique; 13 from Negros Occidental; 10 from Bacolod City; s
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The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has called on all sectors to work together in building a caring society for the elderly, as it recognized the senior citizens’ contributions to nation-building.
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The DSWD said both publi
A lawmaker on Sunday urged the Senate to act on a House bill seeking to double to P1,000 the monthly pension of some 3.8 million indigent senior citizens. Rep. Michael T. Defensor of Anakalusugan made a call on the Senate to pass House Bill (HB) 9459, as a presidential proclamation…