41K indigent seniors of Antique receive annual pension
MORE than 41,000 indigent senior citizens from the province of Antique received their annual social pension for calendar year 2023.
Based on the report of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), the distribution and release of the pension to some 1,927 indigent senior citizens in the province has already completed.
The DSWD said the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens would be of great help to further assist the elderly persons for their daily subsistence and other medical needs.
Indigent senior citizens are entitled to receive P500 per month or P6,000 annually.
The social pension is given to any elderly, aged 60 years old and above who is frail, sickly or with a disability, and without a pension or permanent source of income, compensation or financial assistance from his or her relatives to support his or her basic needs.
Some 29 centenarians or those who reached 100 years of age and above from Antique also received P100,000 each from the DSWD.
The Centenarian Program, as mandated by Republic Act 10868 or the Centenarians Act of 2016, provides centenarians, whether residing in the country or abroad, with P100,000 cash incentives and a letter of felicitation signed by the President of the Philippines congratulating them for their longevity.
