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==PCSO millionaires' club reaches 1700 - ABS CBN News== | |||
*Source: http://cebusandman.typepad.com/philippines_travel_news/2012/03/pcso-millionaires-club-reaches-1700-abs-cbn-news.html | |||
*March 13, 2012 at 8:41 AM | |||
:By. ABS CBN News | |||
MANILA, Philippines - An official of the Philippine Charity Sweepstakes Office (PCSO) disclosed yesterday that there are now 1,700 members of the so-called “Instant Millionaires Club” composed of winners of online lottery draws with prizes ranging from P3 million to P741 million since 1995. | |||
Jose Ferdinand Rojas II, PCSO general manager, said that since the 6/42 Mega Lotto and 6/49 Super Lotto games were launched in 1995, some 1,700 lucky bettors have won the jackpot. | |||
“Most of the winners are ordinary folks who religiously maintained certain combinations,” he said. | |||
A balikbayan from New York had won the biggest lotto jackpot worth more than P741 million in the 6/55 Grand Lotto in October 2010. The winner was on vacation in Subic where he bought the winning ticket. | |||
Most of the jackpot winners, however, have told stories of rags to riches when they claimed their prizes at the PCSO central office at the Philippine International Convention Center in Pasay City.A 60-year-old carpenter from Las Piñas City won P341 million for the Grand Lotto draw last year while a 49-year-old government employee from General Santos City won P106 million for the Super Lotto draw. | |||
Rojas said most of the winners maintained certain number combinations that represent important dates and events in their lives. | |||
He said the PCSO generates funds for its medical assistance through the lotto draws and other games. Rojas said out of ticket sales, the PCSO allocates 55 percent to prizes, 30 percent to charity through medical assistance, and 15 percent to the agency’s operating fund. | |||
He said the PCSO charter-mandated core services are direct outpatient care through the charity clinic department and medical outreach missions in communities; the granting of individual medical assistance; and the granting of institutional assistance through the endowment fund for hospitals, clinics, homes for the elderly and street children, and the like. | |||
Rojas said that PCSO also grants assistance to victims of calamities and national emergencies, to regular beneficiary organizations, ambulance units to qualified institutions and LGUs, and donation of medicine and medical equipment. | |||
Under the Individual Medical Assistance Program (IMAP), the PCSO accepts requests for hospitalization, dialysis, medicine (except maintenance and for cosmetic purposes), chemotherapy drugs, laboratory and diagnostic procedures, and equipment such as wheelchair, hearing aid, and implants or prostheses. | |||
Among the documentary requirements are a request letter, medical abstract, medicine prescription, certificate of indigence, price quotations for medicine, hospital billing statements, and others as needed. | |||
Meanwhile, a 33-year-old woman collapsed after a lotto outlet teller in Quezon City confirmed that her ticket won the P6,989.457.67 jackpot prize for the 6/42 Regular Lotto draw last March 8, 2012. | |||
Rojas said the lucky winner, however, recovered immediately after she verified her winning ticket at a lotto outlet at a mall at the corner of EDSA and North Ave. | |||
Rojas said the woman and her live-in partner claimed the jackpot at the PCSO central office at the PICC.A security guard assisted the woman and after she regained consciousness the teller told her to sign the ticket for security reasons. | |||
The winner and her partner, who have one child, plan to get married and buy a house and lot. | |||
==SM foundation turns over classroom building in Gen San== | ==SM foundation turns over classroom building in Gen San== | ||
*Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R12&article=1671331541907 | *Source: http://pia.gov.ph/news/index.php?menu=2&webregion=R12&article=1671331541907 | ||
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Schools of choice now include General Santos City being the site of the biggest SM malls in Mindanao. SM GenSan is expected to open in June or July this year. | Schools of choice now include General Santos City being the site of the biggest SM malls in Mindanao. SM GenSan is expected to open in June or July this year. | ||
Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio noted the contribution of SM Foundation saying she was happy with the assistance as it helps boost public schools facility in the city. | Mayor Darlene Antonino-Custodio noted the contribution of SM Foundation saying she was happy with the assistance as it helps boost public schools facility in the city. | ||
==BIR-12 moves to prevent tax record ‘leakages’== | ==BIR-12 moves to prevent tax record ‘leakages’== | ||