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 that 24 of the beneficiaries unfortunately died before receiving their cash…
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AID TO SENIORS. Florentino Aldaya, 79, of Barangay Sua in Barobo, Surigao del Sur, is among the beneficiaries of the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development - Caraga. The photo taken in September shows Aldaya receiving PHP3,000 from a DSWD staff. (Photo courtesy of DSWD-13) BUTUAN CITY - The Department of Social Welfare and Development in Caraga (DSWD-13) said 155,328 indigent senior citizens in the region have benefited from the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens program during the first half of 2021. Marko Davey Reyes, information officer of DSWD-13, told the Philippine News Agency (PNA) on Tuesday that the validation of the list of indigent beneficiaries will continue for the succeeding payout. A total of PHP465,984,000 pension was already released to the elderly who are entitled to PHP500 monthly. "The distribution of the pension for the second semester is still ongoing. We have an allocation of PHP268,50