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DSWD Caraga expedites social pension payout for seniors
Philippine Information Agency
10 May 2021, 18:38 GMT+10
BUTUAN CITY, May 10 The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), in coordination with the Local Government Units (LGUs) of Caraga region, is currently conducting the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens Program payout/distribution of the stipend grants for the First Semester of 2021.
As of April 26, 2021, DSWD Caraga has a total amount disbursed of Php239,775,000.00 distributed to the 23,134 senior beneficiaries in Agusan del Norte; 34, 808 in Agusan del Sur; and 21,983 beneficiaries in Surigao del Norte. This brings the total to 79,925, or 53 percent of the total 170,000 targeted beneficiaries for the region have received their grants.
Published December 31, 2020, 7:45 AM
This year’s COVID-19 pandemic prodded the Duterte government to launch the first-of-its-kind and the biggest social amelioration initiative in the country’s history to provide financial relief to the country’s poor families who were economically displaced due to the coronavirus-induced lockdown.
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All eyes were on the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the primary government agency tasked to look after the welfare and protection of millions of low-income families in the midst of the pandemic.
Over 31 million low-income families have benefited from the national government’s Social Amelioration Program (SAP), which was provided under the already-lapsed Republic Act No. 11469 or the “Bayanihan to Heal as One Act”, popularly known as Bayanihan 1.