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MANILA, Philippines — Starting next month, indigent senior citizens who are beneficiaries of the Department of Social Welfare and Development’s (DSWD) Social Pension program will receive a P1,000 monthly stipend, DSWD Assistant Secretary Romel Lopez announced on Monday.…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Senator Christopher “Bong” Go on Friday, March 24, 2023, announced that a total of P20 million worth of medical assistance intended for indigent patients will be downloaded to the newly launched Malasakit Center…
MANILA, Philippines—The Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued a circular decreasing the bail for indigents facing criminal cases to a maximum of P10,000. Department Circular No. 11, dated February 20 requires all prosecutors to take into consideration the financial…
CEBU CITY, Philippines — Sick indigent patients in Bantayan town in northern Cebu, who would need to be transported by ambulance from the district hospital to a provincial hospital on mainland Cebu, would not have to worry…
ELIAKIM Cantunao of Toledo City, southern Cebu, works as a motorcycle driver to help his family after losing his father recently. Now on his second year of an education course at the University of Visayas (UV), Cantunao…
ABOUT 34,724 indigent families in Cebu were given P2,400 as unconditional cash transfer (UCT) from the government to help them cope with the effects of the Tax Reform for Acceleration and Inclusion (Train) Law. Regional Director Ma.…
WHEN Saturnina Saure, 65, saw a group of policemen in full uniform enter her community in Sitio Kitchen, Barangay Pajo in Lapu-Lapu City yesterday morning, she immediately thought they were there to arrest someone. To her surprise,…
Lola Julita Plarisan, Lolo Celestino Vaflor and Lolo Emiliano Masayon of Barangay Sto. Niño, Toledo City were all happy when they received the social pension from the Department of Social Welfare and Development through door-to-door delivery. Social…
The Cebu Provincial Board (PB) approved on third and final reading an ordinance mandating provincial and district hospitals in the province to provide free medical care to children of indigent families from newborns to 6 years old.…
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