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A member from the House proposes the creation of an agency to promote and safeguard children’s rights and welfare, following a call from the Committee on the Rights of the Child.
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(Photo courtesy of Rep. Margarita Nograles' Facebook page) MANILA - Single persons will be provided with more benefits and privileges, such as scholarships, monthly subsidies, and flexible working schedule under a proposed law in the House of Representatives. PBA party-list Representative Margarita Nograles filed House Bill 1364, otherwise known as the proposed Single Persons' Welfare Act, which shall develop a comprehensive program of services for single persons and their dependents to be carried out by pertinent government and non-government agencies. Nograles, in filing the bill, said it is not unusual in several Filipino families that the children who have already graduated from college and have begun working, or even those who stopped attending school to find work due to poverty, would eventually become "breadwinners" of their families. "In almost all cases nationwide, many of such single individuals' function like a solo parent and bears the most burden