872 indigent senior citizens receive P1.3M social pension

THE City Treasurer’s Office has concluded the release of social pension for indigent senior citizens. The benefit covers the second quarter of 2015 but the implementing office, Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD), downloaded the amount only on the first quarter of 2016.

DSWD allocated a total of P1,650,000 for 1,100 beneficiaries aged 80 years old and above identified by the National Housing Targeting System. Each beneficiary received P1,500 stipend to augment the daily subsistence and other medical needs of members from the aforementioned vulnerable sector.

However, only 872 beneficiaries claimed the benefit worth P1.3 million, leaving P342,000 unclaimed by 228 senior citizens who are believed to have been deceased. Except for the deceased, those already part of the list will be entitled to future pensions in succeeding years.