Marikina City 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo speaks to her fellow rallyists outside the Senate in Pasay City (Rep. Quimbo’s office) Showing her commitment to senior citizens' welfare, Marikina 2nd district Rep. Stella Quimbo joined a...
A group of senior citizens on Monday, January 20 trooped to the Senate to rally for the passage of a bill that aims to grant social pension to all senior citizens in the country. The United Senior Citizens (USC) Party-list led by Rep. Milagros Aquino-Magsaysay urged the Senate to expedite...
(MANILA BULLETIN) Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte is prodding senators to pass before the end of the 19th Congress the counterpart to the House-passed measure on an expanded social safety net initiative granting a monthly stipend to all...
Indigent senior citizens can now receive their social pension monthly, bi-monthly, or quarterly, rather than the previous semi-annual schedule, according to a Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) official on Thursday, Aug. 29. In a memorandum circular (MC) to all regional directors,...
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Assistant Secretary Irene Dumlao clarified on Wednesday, Aug. 21 that its social pension program is only for indigent senior citizens. This statement was issued to address any confusion about eligibility for the Social Pension for Indigent Senior...
(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...
Carlos Yulo The House of Representatives is now studying the possibility of giving more benefits--including a lifetime pension--to Filipino Olympic medalists as a way to recognize them for the honor and prestige that they brought to the...
By ELLALYN DE VERA-RUIZ Over 3.7 million indigent senior citizens nationwide have benefited from the social pension program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) in the first half of the year, receiving a total disbursement of P21.8 billion, DSWD spokesperson Irene Dumlao said...
The Commission on Human Rights (CHR) looks forward to the enactment into law of House Bill No. 10423 that would provide monthly social pension to all senior citizens regardless of their financial status. Currently, only indigent seniors receive a monthly social pension of P500. House Bill...
For only P500, Social Security System (SSS) members can start saving up for their retirement fund and earn a higher annual return through its reintroduced savings program. SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Roland Ledesma Macasaet urged its members to enroll in the MySSS Pension Booster,...
The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has greenlit the release of P14 billion to cover the regular pension requirements of military retirees for the period of July to September 2024. The approval, granted on June 14, 2024, comes in response to the Department of National Defense (DND) –...
Members of the Social Security System (SSS) will start receiving text messages about their late payments or past due on their short-term member loans to renew their loans after paying them off. SSS Senior Vice President for Lending and Asset Management Group Pedro T. Baoy said that they will...
