ELDERLY Filipinos can soon receive cash gifts by the time they reach 80 years or 90 years of age, under a measure approved by both the Senate and the House of Representatives. The proposal aims to give a monetary bonus not only to centenarians but to octogenarians and nonagenarians as well, a senior lawmaker said last Sunday.
In MC 34, Malacañan Palace ordered the National Commission of Senior Citizens to spearhead programs in support of Republic Act 11350, or the NCSC Act. The lawmaker was the lead author of House Bill 302, which was one of the bills consolidated with HB 7535 that the House passed on third and final reading last May before the adjournment of the first regular session of the 19th Congress, in a bid to amend RA 10868. Also called the “Centenarians Act of 2016,” the law mandates granting a P100,000 cash gift to Filipino centenarians.
RA 10868 tasked the DSWD with taking charge of distributing to centenarians the cash gift and the accompanying letter of felicitation from the President for each beneficiary. Senators already passed Senate Bill 2028—their counterpart to HB 7535—last month before the Senate and the House took their September 30 to November 5 congressional recess.
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