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Baguio Senior Citizens Get Taste of Social Pension
By Joseph B Zambrano, Philippine Information
Agency
June 21, 2011
Philippines
Thirty
four indigent senior citizens of this city received P1,500 cash
stipends for the first quarter recently from the government’s Social
Pension Program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development
(DSWD)- Cordillera.
According to City Social Welfare Officer Betty Fangasan, a total of 78
indigent senior citizens in the city qualified as beneficiaries to
receive the social pension.
“We will be awarding the balance as soon as we validate the list coming
from the National Household Targeting System (NHTS), Fangasan said.
She disclosed that they will be depositing the pension in the bank and
the recipients will be withdrawing their money whenever they want to.
Fangasan reminded the pensioners that the money is for them
to use to buy medicine and goods that will keep them healthy and
strong.
Vice Mayor Daniel Fariñas, who handed the stipends to the
pensioners, said that the elderly are the “inspiration of the
present and future generation.You need to stay healthy to guide us and
we hope that we can also reach your age when we get older,”
Fariñas said.
The Expanded Senior Citizens Act provides social pension program for
social pension for indigent elderlies aimed to augment their needs for
medicine, for health services, and for daily subsistence at the
twilight of their life.
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