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Valenzuela seniors receive P3,000
About 3,209 elderly residents in Valenzuela City received P3,000 in social pension on May 25.
“The COVID-19 (new coronavirus disease) pandemic has greatly affected senior citizens. Since the declaration of the enhanced community quarantine in mid-March, … they have been barred from going outside and leaving their residences as the virus poses more health risks to their age group,” the city’s public information office said in a statement.
It added that the elderly who had working children were denied cash assistance from the national government even as the pandemic depleted people’s savings.
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As of Tuesday, only around 1,630 elderly residents had yet to collect their pension from the City Social Welfare and Development Office.
Indigent senior citizens are entitled to a P500 monthly stipend — usually distributed every six months — for their medical needs under Republic Act No. 9994, or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.
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