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PAYOUT NOW, WORK LATER. Ilocos Norte Vice Governor Cecilia Araneta-Marcos meets the first 68 beneficiaries of the "Payout now, work later" program of the Ilocos Norte government on Thursday (March 24, 2022). A total of 500 beneficiaries under this program will receive PHP5,000 each. (Photo by Leilanie G. Adriano) LAOAG CITY - The first batch of informal sector workers and freelance workers affected by the enhanced community quarantine on Thursday received financial assistance from the Ilocos Norte government through the Ilocos Norte Trade and Investment Center (INvest). Among the recipients of the PHP5,000 cash assistance were 68 workers from the different barbershops, salons and spa clinics, sports and fitness centers, massage parlors, gyms, playgrounds, and rides in Laoag City and the municipalities of San Nicolas and Pasuquin. With the ongoing oil crisis and the surging prices of basic commodities, a salon worker like Amie Salvador said she is grateful the provincial gover ....