153 indigent elderly receive pension fund

Councilor Lea Doris Capuyan-Villar helps in the paperwork for the release of pension for indigetn senior citizens.

THE Department of Social Welfare and Development distributed P618,000 to 153 indigent senior citizens last Mar. 16 as part of its social pension program. A hundred of the beneficiaries received P3,000 each representing their P500 monthly pension for the 3rd and 4th quarters last year. The rest received P6,000 for the full year.

Councilor Lea Doris Capuyan-Villar who chairs the committee on social welfare in her inspirational speech during the program said she will legislate a local counterpart which will replicate an ordinance for such purpose already enacted in Cebu City.
 

Those qualified to participate in the program are senior citizens who are frail, sick and disabled not receiving any pension, without a permanent source of income or regular support from families and relatives. One beneficiary expressed his appreciation to the program: “Bisan ginagmay ang kwartang hinabang makatabang lang gihapon sa kalisod sa tigulang labi na karon nga panahon nga kami walay panginabuhian na.”
 

Social Worker Officers II Raquel B. Moralde and Nena L. Getalado distributed the cash assisted by Asst. City Social Welfare and Development Officer Imelda Dadulla, and Self Employment Assistance-Kaunlaran Project Evaluation Officer Nelia Oledan. by Joseph Levi Sausa

(West Leyte Weekly Express issue of Mar. 12-18, 2012)