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With the government still in the process of securing more test kits to screen potential carriers of the COVID-19 coronavirus, a Manila lawmaker on Thursday urged the Department of Health (DOH) to consider amending its testing guidelines so that senior citizens are to be given priority. “Individuals 60 years and older should be prioritized as […]
Local government units (LGUs), specifically its municipal or city councils, should prioritize job creation programs and providing healthcare benefits for senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs), said Senator Joel Villanueva. Villanueva said Senate Bill No. 1278 which he filed, seeks to amend a provision of Republic Act No. 7160 that will emphasize the importance of […]
Senior citizens need not wait to reach 100 years old to get cash incentives from the government. According to a proposal from Senate Majority Leader Juan Miguel Zubiri and Senator Ramon Bong Revilla, Jr., senior citizens 80 years old and above will be given a cash gift and a letter of felicitation by the government. […]
Various groups representing the senior citizen sector expressed their support for Senator Bong Revilla’s proposed amendment of Republic Act 10868, “An Act Honoring and Granting Additional Benefits and Privileges to Filipino Centenarians,” or the “Centenarians Act of 2016.” During the public hearing of the Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development joint with […]
Showing his concern for his fellow Davaoeños, Senator Bong Go aided victims of a fire that struck SIR Phase 1, Brgy. 76-A, Bucana, in Davao City recently where he distributed food packs and some financial assistance. Go added that he is also providing school supplies and uniforms to affected school children so that they may […]
The government will sustain its “indigent senior pension program” with a P23.18-billion allocation next year that will grant 3.8 million senior citizens a P6,000 annual stipend each, Sen. Sonny Angara said. On top of this is a P3,600 annual assistance from the “Unconditional Cash Transfer” (UCT) fund, a three-year “safety net” program for “economically vulnerable […]
Senator Koko Pimentel III visited the National Center for Geriatric Health and bared his plans to convert the National Center for Geriatric Health into the National Center for Geriatric Health and Research Institute. In support of his advocacy to ensure that senior citizens receive appropriate care, Pimentel filed Senate Bill No. 100 or the ‘National […]
Filipinos are vulnerable to health issues at any age. But while the the country has the National Children’s Hospital to address the needs of the young, it does not have a counterpart for the nation’s close to nine million senior citizens. This, stressed Minority Leader and Manila 6th District Rep. Benny Abante Jr., is the […]
In line with his advocacy for the rights of senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs), Senator Koko Pimentel III recently received 100 wheelchairs from a group of Chinese businessmen at the Senate of the Philippines. Donors Lucio Ang, Nelson Guevarra, Sherwin Tan and Carla Tan, Henry Callano, Kim Tan, Brgy. Chairman Jefferson Lau, and […]
Aside from bigger and wider coverage of social pension, the country’s elderly population must be given employment opportunities to be productive even in their old age and keep them away from poverty, according to reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara. Angara, a champion of the rights and welfare of senior citizens in the Senate, said many elderly […]