IT sounds like a cash gift on Yuletide, said Cristina Castañeda, Osca officer in charge, but the amount is actually the sum of the annual P500 midyear cash assistance, P500 birthday cash gift and P500 Christmas bonus.
The recipients—1,350 senior citizens in the city’s First District and the 1,457 senior citizens in the Second District, a total of 2,807—will receive P1,500 each for 2013, she said.
The cash assistance for Pasay’s December-born senior citizens was delayed for about a year due to the option of the city to give it to senior citizens in both congressional districts simultaneously, Castañeda said.
Fund for the P1,500 cash incentive for senior citizens in the Second District was approved ahead of the budget for their counterparts in the First District, Castañeda said.
The budget for senior citizens in the First District is, in contrast, a prior-year obligation , which requires many terms to accomplish before getting an approval by the city council and the mayor, she noted.
The fund for the P1,500 cash assistance for the 1,350 December-born senior citizens in the First District will be sourced from the mayor’s budget for livelihood programs, Castañeda said.
The budget of over P4 million for senior citizens in both districts also covers the P1,500 for the city’s 201 barangay senior citizens’ association presidents for one quarter, she added.
Senior citizens’ barangay association presidents in Pasay receive P500 a month, each to compensate their responsibilities as leaders of their fellow seniors in the barangay, Castañeda said.
She noted that the city treasurer’s office decides the date for the handover of the P1,500 cash incentive, and that Osca does release any amount for senior citizens.
The role of Osca is to provide senior citizens with information and call and gather when required, Castañeda said.
The bedridden and disabled elderly will be visited by the city treasurer’s office staff to personally transfer into their hands the cash assistance, she said.
It is the first time the P500 mid-year cash assistance, the P500 birthday cash gift and the P500 Christmas cash gift will be received by the city’s senior citizens in a single dole-out, she added.
Only senior citizens with proof of residence and voting in Pasay can claim the cash assistance, Castañeda noted.
The city “gifts” both its senior citizens born in December, and also those celebrating birthdays in other months, with P500 midyear cash assistance, P500 birthday cash gift and P500 Christmas cash gift, she said.
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Comment:mam.. pano po kunin ang cash gift ng senior.. k bbday lng po ng mama q.. 63 n age nya.. pano po ang proseso.. hnd nmn xa mka attend ng mga meeting senior kc smsakit ang mga joints nya tpos hnihingal xa pg nglalakad.. paano poh b dpt gwin nmin