Cebu City Mayor Michael Rama. (File photo) CEBU CITY - Mayor Michael Rama on Thursday reiterated his position that vulnerable sectors like the senior citizens, persons with disabilities (PWD), and the poor should receive financial assistance from the city government without being required to cast their vote on May 9. In a press briefing, Rama said "it has never been a policy of his administration" to require recipients of any forms of aid from the government to vote, even as he acknowledged individuals' right to choose their leaders on the election day. "PWDs, senior citizens, stimulus assistance beneficiaries should be distributed because that's people's money. That will have to be released by May 13," Rama said. He said over PHP100 million worth of assistance is due for distribution after the election. The mayor made the clarification following reports quoting an official of the Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA) as saying around 92,000 city
MANILA The House of Representatives is urging the Department of Social Welfare and Development to release the monthly social pension of senior citizens on a quarterly basis instead of the current semestral schedule. During Tuesday’s plenary session, the chamber adopted House Resolution 2276, which stresses the need to provide senior citizens…
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(File photo) MANILA - The House of Representatives is urging the Department of Social Welfare and Development to release the monthly social pension of senior citizens on a quarterly basis instead of the current semestral schedule. During Tuesday's plenary session, the chamber adopted House Resolution 2276, which stresses the need to provide senior citizens financial assistance as soon as possible amid the coronavirus disease (Covid-19) pandemic. Deputy Speaker Rufus Rodriguez, one of the authors of the resolution, said an interval of six months within which to distribute the social pension for indigent senior citizens maybe more harmful than responsible. "The deprivation or delayed administration of critical medicines to the citizenry, especially the elderly, has the potential to worsen existing medical conditions," Rodriguez said. Rodriguez said as a result of lockdowns and quarantines in many parts of the country due to Covid-19, a large segment of the working populatio