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 ==[[Ilocos Norte News]]==
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-'''DOLE, LC City Govt offer summer jobs for students'''
+'''DSWD releases P20.3 M for indigent senior citizens'''
-*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R01&article=341335406819
+*Source: http://www.pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?article=1911334893459
-*By: PIA
+*By: Cherry Joy S. Discaya
-*''Thursday, April 26, 2012''
+*''Friday, April 27, 2012''
-LAOAG CITY- The City Government of Laoag in partnership with the Department of Labor and Employment is offering jobs for students this summer.
+LAOAG CITY- A total of 2,143 indigent senior citizens in Ilocos Norte are recipients of a stipend from the Department of Social Work and Development, which has alloted P20,344,500 for Region 1.
-Mayor Michael V. Farinas said the city government has committed 250 summer jobs for children from poor families to help them finance their studies for the next school year.
+Region 1 has 13,563 indigent senior citizens who receive a monthly stipend of P1,500 each, under the government’s social pension program (SPS).
-This summer employment is the Special Program for Students (SPES) mandated under Republic Act 7325 aimed at helping poor but deserving students pursue their education by encouraging their employment during summer and/or Christmas vacation and providing income to finance, augment or subsidize their studies.
+The funds were distributed among 121 municipalities in the region. While the pensioners in Ilocos Norte came from its 21 municipalities and 2 cities, respectively.
-Mylene Isabel Pascual, City Community Affairs Officer, said Mayor Farinas has always prioritized education which is why the city government keeps on increasing the number of summer jobs since it started in 1993. And for this year, it is offering 250 slots, the biggest accommodation by any local government unit in the province.
+However, according to Iryn Q. Delos Reyes, information officer of DSWD, there were only 13,378 who attended the distribution. A total of 185 social pensioners were not able to come due to sickness and other difficulties.
-Under the program, the City Government will pay 60 percent of the salaries while the DOLE will shoulder the remaining 40 percent. The minimum wage in the province is pegged at P309.90 per day.
+The Regional Social Pension Unit coordinated with the Local Government Units (LGUs) for the reschedule of releasing of stipend for those who did not attend the scheduled release.
-The summer employment program is open to high school, college or vocational students or drop-outs, 15-25 years old, who wish to pursue education. They will be screened depending on their parents’ income which should not exceed the annual provincial poverty threshold for a family of 6 which is P101,970 per annum.
+“We thank the help of our government who pity poor senior citizens like us” shared by ‘Lola Pascuala’, 80 years old in Banna Ilocos Norte said in an interview with the DSWD.
-The program will begin next month.
+Lola Pascuana also mentioned that the monthly stipend that she received is used to buy more nutritious foods, medicine and vitamins.
+The Social Pension program of the national government intends to serve indigent senior citizens who are frail, sickly and disabled.
+Beneficiaries of the program are senior citizens 77 years old and above, without any regular source of income and/or support from any member of the family, and not receiving other pension benefits from government and private agencies.
+The beneficiaries came from the list of the National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR) of the DSWD, which is the database identifying who and where the poor families are.
+The social pension program is provided under Republic Act No. 9994, also known as the Expanded Senior Citizens Act (ESCA) of 2010.
 ==Ilocos Norte Zip Codes==