Over 546,000 indigent senior citizens have received their stipend for the first semester of 2020 under the government's Social Pension (SocPen) Program, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) said on Sunday, May 10.
Over 546,000 indigent senior citizens have received their stipend for the first semester of 2020 under the government’s Social Pension Program, the Department of Social Welfare and Development said on Sunday, May 10.
The total number of beneficiaries served by SocPen is only 15.6 percent of the 3.5 million indigent elderly targeted to receive the government pension. The DSWD official has clarified that not all senior citizens will receive the monthly P500 social pension from the government, as Republic Act No. 9994 or the “Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010” provides that seniors qualified to receive social pension are those who are frail, sickly or with disability; without any pension from other government agencies; and without a permanent source of income or source of financial assistance/compensation to support their basic needs.
The social pension is distributed on a semestral basis at P3,000 per semester or P500 per month for six months. Dumlao also earlier made the same assurance, saying those who included in the “clean list” of SocPen beneficiaries can claim their pension. It said the official list of social pensioners will be given to the LGUs and that the DSWD Field Offices will forge a Memorandum of Agreement for the distribution of the six months’ worth of social pension amounting to P3,000, specifically for the duration of ECQ “to ensure the efficient payout.”
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