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Good afternoon, Senator Fonfara, Representative Horn, and members of the Committee, and thank you for this opportunity to testify. My name is Marco Guzman and Im a senior policy analyst with the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, or ITEP, and we’re a nonprofit research organization that focuses on state, local, and federal tax policy issues. 

Senator Christopher “Bong” Go lauded the signing into law of Republic Act No. 11982, or the Amendments to the Centenarian Act. The measure, signed by President Ferdinand R. Marcos, Jr. last Monday, February 26, now expands the benefits for elderly Filipinos. The law, which Go is a co-author and co-sponsor,…

CEBU CITY—Around 300,000 indigent senior citizens in Central Visayas have benefited from the P1.8 billion monthly social pension program of the national government. Shalaine Marie Lucero, regional director of the Department of Social Welfare and Development-Region 7, said Wednesday there were about 299,737 indigent senior citizens who received their P500…

First Lady Louise Araneta-Marcos led the ceremonial payout of the increased social pension for indigent senior citizens on Friday at the Department of Social We

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Field Office VI has announced a significant increase in the monthly social pension for indigent senior citizens, from P500 to P1,000 per month.

Indigent senior citizens who are beneficiaries of the Social Pension program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will now receive a

Government aid payouts are promoting a ‘culture of mendicancy’ among Filipinos, critics say

In an interview over DWPM’s Pintig ng Bayan with Joyce Balancio and Johnson Manabat, Asst. Sec. Lopez, who is also the DSWD spokesperson, emphasized there are

38 arrested for illegal gambling in Cebu

The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) hopes for the approval of the additional funding for the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens