Indigent senior citizens who are beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) social pension program will begin receiving a monthly stipend of P1,000 in February, Assistant Secretary for Strategic Communications and spokesperson Romel Lopez said on Monday, Jan. 22....
The Senate Committee on National Defense and Security has included an amendment in the substitute measure proposing reforms in the military and uniformed personnel (MUP) pension system that would require only new entrants to give contributions for their pension. Sen. Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada,...
Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) spokesperson and Assistant Secretary Romel Lopez said on Tuesday, Nov. 28 that there are no backlogs in the distribution of the P500 monthly social pension for indigent senior citizens. Based on the DSWD data, there are 4.1 million indigent senior...
The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Monday, Nov. 27 said around 41,000 indigent senior citizens of Antique received their annual social pension for 2023. “The DSWD has disbursed and completed the release of the first and second semester pension to some 41,927 indigent...
ILOILO CITY – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said the release of P2.3 billion for the social pension of indigent senior citizens in Western Visayas is almost complete. INDIGENT senior citizens receive social pension in Western Visayas. (DSWD-6) Gretchen Taleon,...
Mayor Baby Manlapaz of Hagonoy, Bulacan speaks before indigent senior citizens during the payout of the last quarter social pension by DSWD Special Disbursement Officers of Region 3 on Friday, October 13, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Marcel Bayan) More than 500 senior citizens from...
Senate Majority Leader Joel Villanueva has urged the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) to make sure that there will be funding for the increase in the monthly social pension of the country's indigent senior citizens. Villanueva, the principal sponsor of the Increased Social Pension...
The Department of National Defense (DND) has expressed gratitude to the leadership of the House of Representatives for passing in the second reading a version of the Military and Uniformed Personnel (MUP) pension system reform bill that exempts active uniformed personnel from paying their...
Albay 2nd district Rep. Joey Salceda (Facebook) The proposed Military and Uniformed Personnel (MUP) Pension Reform Bill came one step closer to enactment Tuesday, Sept. 19 after the House of Representatives passed an amended version of the measure on second...
Defense Secretary Gilberto “Gibo” Teodoro Jr. has urged Congress to pass a measure seeking the absolute dissolution of the Armed Forces of the Philippines-Retirement and Separation Benefits System (RSBS) through law. Defense Sec. Gilberto Teodoro Jr. faces the Committee on National Defense of...
Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) Chief General Romeo Brawner Jr. The military supports Department of National Defense (DND) Secretary Gilbert "Gibo" Teodoro Jr.'s proposal for the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) to dispose of its real properties,...
The Department of Finance (DOF) has assured that retired members of the uniformed services will not be affected by the government's proposed pension reforms currently pending in Congress. Finance Undersecretary Cielo D. Magno said one of the key features of the DOF proposal is to maintain the...
