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30% DISCOUNT FOR PWD SENIORS PUSHED

Senior Citizens Party-list Representative Rodolfo Ordanes has filed House Bill 5189 seeking to raise the senior citizen discount to 30% from the current 20% but only for seniors who are also persons with disabilities (SCWDs), while retaining its deductibility from gross income incentive for businesses. The discount hike is necessary, according to Ordanes, because “inflation, higher […]

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Elderly, PWDs to Take Part in Local Absentee Voting – ALVAREZ

Pantaleon Alvarez

Aware of the difficulties senior citizens and persons with disabilities have to face during elections, Speaker Pantaleon Alvarez wants to ease their woes by allowing them to vote under the local absentee voting system. Absentee voting is meant to increase participation by citizens who are in situations, which prevent them to vote, like government officials […]