Mary Jane Veloso (center) (Santi San Juan/ MANILA BULLETIN) Senior Citizen Party-list Rep. Rodolfo "Ompong" Ordanes is asking President Marcos to take into consideration Mary Jane Veloso's elderly parents in the decision on whether or...
(Istock) Senior Citizen Party-list Rep. Rodolfo "Ompong" Ordanes is calling on authorities to ensure that elderly persons deprived of liberty (PDL) get their due seniors' pension and benefits. "I appeal to the Department of Social Welfare and...
Senior Citizens Party-list Rep. Rodolfo Ordanes (Facebook) Senior Citizens Party-list Rep. Rodolfo "Ompong" Ordanes has welcomed the reduction in the Manila Electric Company's (Meralco) power rates this October, saying it brings much-needed relief to...
Senior Citizens Party-list Rep. Rodolfo Ordanes (Facebook) Senior Citizens Party-list Representative Rodolfo "Ompong" Ordanes might have gray hair already, but he has no intention of slowing down in terms of his work as a legislator. In...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Senior Citizen Party-list Rep. Rodolfo Ordanes sees the need to institutionalize a pension system for Filipino farmers and fishermen. For this purpose, Ordanes filed House Bill (HB) No.10740 or the proposed “Agriculture Pension...
House of Representatives (Ellson Quismorio/ MANILA BULLETIN) At 68 years old, Celia Esguerra still has to look after her three grandchildren. The eldest has just stepped foot in college, the middle is in Grade 8, and the youngest is in preschool....
President Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr. (Noel Pabalate/ MANILA BULLETIN) Senior Citizens Party-list Rep. Rodolfo Ordanes believes that President Marcos will give special mention to the enactment of Republic Act (RA) No.11982 or the Expanded...
Senior Citizens Party-list Rep. Rodolfo Ordanes (Facebook) Senior Citizens Party-list Rep. Rodolfo "Ompong" Ordanes has echoed the call of National Commissioners of Senior Citizens (NCSC) officials for the removal of Chairman Franklin Quijano from the body....
(Mark Balmores/MANILA BULLETIN) Senior Citizens Party-list Rep. Rodolfo “Ompong” Ordanes is urging corporations and enterprises to hire fit-to-work seniors to help reduce poverty and hunger in areas with high population density and high poverty...
Senior Citizens Party-list Rep. Rodolfo ‘Ompong” Ordanes trumpeted on Monday, April 3 the incoming benefit to some four million indigent elderly Filipinos in the form of the P1,000 monthly social pension. “I proudly report to the over four million indigent seniors nationwide that our efforts...
The national government would have to cough up between P92 billion and P230 billion annually if and when Congress institutionalizes a proposal to provide all senior citizens in the Philippines a universal social pension. (Danie Franco/ Unsplash) There are seven such measures pending before House...
A group of senior citizens voiced their support to what it called the “long overdue” purge of the list of the Pantawid Pamilyang Pilipino Program (4Ps) beneficiaries by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD). (FILE PHOTO/MANILA BULLETIN) Senior Citizen Party-list Rep. Rodolfo...
