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==More senior citizens in Laoag gets social pension== | |||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R01&article=1911331085862 | |||
*By: Cherry Joy S. Discaya | |||
*''March 07, 2012'' | |||
LAOAG CITY- More Senior Citizens are now beneficiaries of the Social Pension Program (SPP) of the Department of Social Welfare Development (DSWD) in Laoag City. | |||
A total of 128 indigent senior citizens are now receiving monthly social pension, an additional of 26 beneficiaries from last year’s 102. | |||
According to Adelina Asuncion, focal person of the senior citizens desk of the City Social Welfare Development Office, each pensioner receives 500 pesos monthly stipend. | |||
The stipend is a big help to the poorest senior citizens because they have money to buy food, medicine and for their other personal needs, said Asuncion said. | |||
The SP 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, Asuncion explained. | |||
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 are. | |||
The social pension program is provided under Republic Act No. 9994, also known as the Expanded Senior Citizens Act (ESCA) of 2010. | |||
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*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R01&article=341331008254 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R01&article=341331008254 | ||