About P5 – million worth of social pension has been allocated by the administration Pres. Benigno S. Aquino III for the pay-out to social pensioners in the province.
Based on the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) – Field Office here, there are about 1,255 identified beneficiaries of the Social Pension Program for 2011.
The amount covers the last semester of the year except for the 405 pensioners who will receive their P6,000 pension from January to December.
Each pensioner is entitled to a monthly stipend of P500 on a quarterly basis, as mandated the Republic Act No. 9994 or the "Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010."
Eligible for the program are senior citizens aged 77 years old and above, frail, sick or with disability and without pension or permanent source of income or regular support from relatives to meet their basic needs.
DSWD 6 – Field Office Public Information Officer Eliseo Abucay said that the identification of beneficiaries were based on the DSWD's National Household Targeting System for Poverty Reduction (NHTS-PR).
Last May, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman also led the ceremonial pay-out of social pension to senior citizens at the Governor's Hall of the Provincial Capitol here.
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