Soc to propose increase of seniors cash aid to P3,000

Edison Delos Angeles 03/13/2017

Seniors in Talisay City has something to look forward to. Councilor Socrates Fernandez of Talisay City in southern Cebu wants to increase the annual financial assistance given to the at least 10,000 senior citizens in the city…

Cebu City senior citizens to get P2,000 on Saturday

Inna Mejia 02/02/2017

At least 67,300 senior citizens in Cebu City are set to receive P2,000 on Saturday, the first tranche of their 2017 cash aid. Cebu Mayor Tomas Osmeña said distribution for mountain barangay residents will be done in…

Special lanes for seniors, PWDs

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 01/23/2017

HAVE you ever accompanied your old parents or grandparents to church and had to stand throughout the Holy Mass since there are no more vacant seats? Or having to line up a long queue in order to…

Lapu, Cebu City seniors get cash aid

Norman V. Mendoza 12/10/2016

LAPU-LAPU City’s seniors and persons with disabilities in the city’s 30 barangays received their financial assistance handed over by City Hall personnel yesterday. The senior citizens who numbered 23,000 each received P2,000 this month, about P200 more…

Mandaue City elderly to receive cash aid

Dominic D. Yasay 12/09/2016

AT LEAST 15,000 senior citizens in Mandaue City will receive the last installment of their annual P6,000 cash assistance from the Mandaue City government in the next two weeks. This developed after the city government released P32.95…

Protecting Environmental Rights and their Defenders

Atty. Gloria Estenzo Ramos 12/04/2016

Miracles are provided by Nature to all of us but we haughtily take them for granted, as if our home planet owes us these services. How can we possibly exist without the air, water, land, trees, the…

Seniors receive cash aid

Margarette Managaytay 10/27/2016

More than 1,000 Cebu City’s senior citizens received their cash aid in areas designated by the mayor’s office starting at 7:30 am Thursday. Esmeralda Barcelo, one of the BMO staff said they waited for the other senior…

Angara asks Digong to show compassion to seniors, PWDs

10/26/2016

Senator Sony Angara appealed for compassion on Tuesday over the government’s plan to lift the value-added tax (Vat) exemptions on senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs). Finance undersecretary Karl Kendrick T. Chua said that by removing…

SM City Cebu helps senior citizens become productive

10/24/2016

Five senior citizens from Cebu City finished their one-year “employment” in SM City Cebu. SM City Cebu has extended due recognition and importance to the skills of members of the elderly population and hired them on October…

Probe distribution of elderly cash aid

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 10/04/2016

The Cebu City Council is asking the Office of the Ombudsman to investigate last Sunday’s holding of the city’s distribution of financial assistance for senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs) in private areas like the house…

Confusion over venue change, processing of aid

Nestle L. Semilla 08/20/2016

While some complained and others were confused about the venue, seniors in Barangay Basak San Nicolas managed to receive their P2,000 cash aid along with other seniors in Cebu City’s 80 barangays yesterday. Senior citizen Tarsila Navarro…

Tomas orders review of seniors master list

Nestle L. Semilla 07/13/2016

CEBU City Mayor Tomas Osmeña has ordered a review of the list of beneficiaries of the city’s cash aid program for senior citizens which he started in 2008. Osmeña said he wanted to make sure that only…

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