Migrant workers who helped build modern China have no pensions and cannot retire
BEIJING—At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. But for migrant workers like her, not working is not an option.
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BEIJING—At 53, Guan Junling is too old to get hired at factories anymore. But for migrant workers like her, not working is not an option.
BUTUAN CITY—At least 36,847 indigent senior citizens in Caraga Region were given financial assistance in the first quarter of this year under the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens program, the region’s Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD-13) said Thursday.
LONDON—The world’s oldest man says the secret to his long life is luck, moderation—and fish and chips every Friday.
PIKIT, North Cotabato—The North Cotabato provincial government on Friday began distributing P53.3 million worth of social pension to 8,898 senior citizens in scheduled payouts.
MANILA—The Department of Budget and Management (DBM) has released a total of P49.807 billion to fund the social pension of over 4 million indigent senior citizens nationwide.
The chairman of the House Committee on Ways and Means said on Wednesday that the lower chamber is now working to provide a comprehensive approach, including exploration of a separate insurance fund under PhilHealth, to address the challenges faced by senior citizens, particularly in accessing health care.
“The greatest wealth is to live content with little.”—Plato
LEGAZPI CITY—The Department of Social Welfare and Development-5 (Bicol) has released the social pension of nearly 4,000 indigent senior citizens in Camarines Sur.
TAIPEI, Taiwan—Their days often began at the crack of dawn.
They’d head out to a church, a temple, a park and set up a stall. They’d seek out seniors in particular, those who are perhaps the most vulnerable citizens of the information-saturated society that has enveloped them. To get people to stop and listen, they’d offer free bars of soap—a metaphor for the scrubbing that they were undertaking.
Watsons, the leading retailer in health, wellness, and beauty products, wholeheartedly supports the recent administrative order that extends additional discounts to senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs) for basic necessities and prime commodities. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), in collaboration with the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Energy, has ratified a joint administrative order introducing a 5% special discount for senior citizens and PWDs.
LAOAG CITY—Three centenarians in Pagudpud, Ilocos Norte received their cash gifts of P100,000 each from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) on Tuesday.
MANILA—The national government must allocate higher budget for free vaccination of all senior citizens, a health expert said Tuesday.
A senior lawmaker has once again appealed to the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR), urging them to consider granting tax credits to supermarkets and retail outlets that are obligated to provide price cuts to senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs).
IN Jesus’ time, Jewish tombs were sealed with a heavy stone to close the entrance. This is why that early Easter morning, the women who were on their way to Jesus’ tomb suddenly realized they had a problem: who would help them roll away the heavy stone?
BOCA RATON, Fla.—Harold Terens and his fiancee Jeanne Swerlin kissed and held hands like high school sweethearts as they discussed their upcoming wedding in France, a country the World War II veteran first visited as a 20-year-old US Army Air Forces corporal shortly after D-Day.
IN line with continuous efforts to enhance customer experience and do business responsibly, the Philippines’ largest integrated telecommunications company PLDT Inc. (PLDT) and its wireless subsidiary Smart Communications Inc. (Smart) operationalized their Diversity and Inclusion Policy to include retail operations and customer touchpoints.
This Holy Week, for my inner nourishment, my plan is to abstain from my usual YouTube and Netflix diet and instead re-watch spiritually literate films. On top of the list is “Fellowship of the Ring,” which I have seen a couple of times before. It was the first installment of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy directed by the talented New Zealander Peter Jackson. As an aside, December of 2023 marked 10 years since the whole world watched “Return of the King,” the last installment of the said trilogy.
Albay 2nd District Representative Jose “Joey” S. Salceda has announced significant advancements in the protection and benefits afforded to senior citizens and persons with disabilities (PWDs) with the approval of three new bills by the Joint Committees on Senior Citizens, Disability Affairs, and Ways and Means.
Time is a great leveler. After it’s done with us, we all become ugh-ly and wrinkled, just like the once juicy fruit I placed in the ref two months ago and then forgot all about it.
IN light of the recent legislation expanding cash gifts to individuals turning 80, 85, 90, and 95, a senior lawmaker on Thursday called upon local government executives to collaborate with the National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) and other concerned agencies to swiftly complete the national database of elderly Filipinos entitled to the financial incentives.
The city government of Batac, through the implementation of the Expanded Batac Pre-Centenarian and Centenarian Citizens’ Ordinance, has been reaching out to its elders in recognition of their contribution to community development.
Speaker Ferdinand Martin G. Romualdez on Wednesday said senior citizens and persons with disabilities will be able to enjoy the increase to P500 per month in discounts on groceries and other prime commodities before the end of March.
One morning a week ago, as I was quietly reading a book, I heard the unmistakable whirring of power blades in our neighborhood. I sat up, a little bit alarmed; only to learn that branches of overgrown trees were being cut down along the main road of our subdivision.
My wife and I are members of a senior citizen organization in our subdivision. Whenever our small circle gets to meet, we usually have disparate casual pocket “kumpulans” while waiting for the rest to arrive. And the topics are predictable. In one little cluster it would be about the contents of the gift bags from the Mayor’s office birthday or the cash gifts from the barangay head, which they had received or in some cases not received. In the next bunch, the chatter would be the amount of additional pensions or grocery discounts for senior citizens being mulled over in Congress. In the next small grouping, one would hear the litany of complaints about senior citizen discounts in some establishments.
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 Marcos, Jr. on February 26, expands the benefits for elderly Filipinos.
MANILA—President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. on Monday signed into law Republic Act (RA) 11981, or the Tatak Pinoy (Proudly Filipino) Act, and RA 11982, granting benefits to octogenarians and nonagenarians.
A senior lawmaker revealed that Republic Act (RA) No. 11982, recently signed by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., ensures that elderly Filipinos receive cash rewards upon reaching the ages of 80, 85, 90, and 95, not just when they turn 100.
PARIS—While France hosts grandiose ceremonies commemorating D-Day, Missak Manouchian and his Resistance fighters’ heroic role in World War II are often overlooked. French President Emmanuel Macron is seeking to change that by inducting Manouchian into the Panthéon national monument on Wednesday.
MANILA—The Philippine Postal Corporation (PHLPost) has presented the centenarian personalized stamp and commemorative cover to former Senate President and now Chief Presidential Legal Counsel Juan Ponce Enrile during the celebration of his 100th birthday on February 14 in Malacañang.
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