Solo parents who will be displaced from their jobs will get double insurance benefits if a congressman’s proposed measure becomes a law. (Photo by @MONKEYBUSINESSIMAGES/ISTOCK) House Bill No. 2229 will grant laid-off solo parents an involuntary separation payment equal to 100 percent of their...
Pasay City Mayor Emi Calixto-Rubiano distributed financial assistance to a total of 630 solo parents on Friday, Jan. 13. Rubiano said aside from the financial assistance, the solo parents were also given grocery bags. She said the distribution was held at the Cuneta Astrodome together with the City...
Despite being called "harmless merrymakers", children still need adults supervision when playing with light-up hand clappers, spinning pens and wands, and the substitute noisemaker "torotot", an environment and toxic watchdog stressed. (Photo courtesy of EcoWaste Coalition) In a statement, EcoWaste...
A total of 54 registered solo parents in Valenzuela City whose children are studying in the tertiary level received educational assistance from the city government on Tuesday, Nov. 8. The City Social Welfare and Development Office (CSWDO) held the distribution of the education assistance at the...
Department of Social Welfare and Development Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Erwin T. Tulfo announced the creation of a technical working group (TWG) to draft the Implementing Rules and Regulations (IRR) to operationalize Republic Act (RA) 11861 or the Expanded Solo...
Cases of violence against women and children in the country went up in the past seven months, the Department of the Interior and Local Government (DILG) disclosed on Thursday, Aug. 4. Based on the data from the Philippine National Police IPNP), a total of 6,383 violence against women cases were...
CEBU CITY – The Cebu City Health Department (CCHD) appealed to parents here Friday, July 8, to bring their children aged 12 to 17 to vaccination sites for COVID-19 booster shots. The CCHD pleaded after the first day of booster shots for 12 to 17-years-old last Thursday, July 7, had a low turnout....
Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. Luis “LRay” Villafuerte has urged the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and 17 other government agencies to establish a package of social protection services for the 15 million solo parents residing in the Philippines. Camarines Sur 2nd district...
Catriona Gray recently shared a series of photos on Instagram. In it, she is seen "introducing" her parents to their "second daughter." It happened in Singapore at Madame Tussauds. https://www.instagram.com/p/Cfk_rQFBtU0/?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y%3D Yes, Catriona's parents finally met her wax...
The Ang Probinsyano Party-list has lauded the lapsing into law of Republic Act (RA) 11861, better known as the Solo Parent's Welfare Act. Rep. Alfred Delos Santos (congress.gov.ph) “Natutuwa po ako na naisabatas na ang Expanded Solo Parents Welfare Act. Matagal din naming trinabaho ito sa...
A measure granting solo parents additional benefits has recently lapsed into law and many are interested in availing themselves of its benefits. ​As Filipinos bear the brunt of the Covid-19 crisis, the continuous oil price hike and the inflation, simple benefits, such as cash subsidy and...
The Gabriela Women's Party-list has welcomed the lapsing into law of Republic Act (RA) 11861, better known as the Expanded Solo Parents' Welfare Act. Gabriela Women's Party-list logo (Facebook) "Gabriela Women's Party is ecstatic over the lapsing of Expanded Solo Parents' Welfare Act into law as RA...
