More indigent seniors to receive cash aid this month – Palace

By Prince Golez

Malacañang assured that more indigent senior citizens will receive their social pension before the year ends.

Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque was reacting to the appeal of Senior Citizen Partylist Rep. Rodolfo Ordanes to President Rodrigo Duterte for the immediate release of the pending undistributed social pension.

Many senior citizens have yet to receive their social pension for the months of July to December.

“Sinangguni po natin itong puntong ito sa DSWD at sa datos na binigay nila sa atin, 78.8 percent naman po ay naibigay na ng DSWD, iyong mga pensiyon ng ating mga lolo at lola,” Roque said in a recent virtual presser.

The Palace official said that as of second semester of 2020, the DSWD has the social pension of 2,973,736 senior citizens.

“Talaga pong mayroon lang pong konting delay kasi hindi naman pupuwedeng magtipun-tipon po ang mga seniors sa pagtanggap ng kanilang mga pensiyon galing po sa DSWD.

“Hayaan ninyo po, tataasan pa natin iyang porsiyentong iyan habang patapos po ang taon,” said Roque.

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