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Go urges bigger seniors’ social pension budget
Senator Christopher "Bong" Go is urging the government to allocate additional funds for the social pension program to cover eligible indigent senior citizens currently on the waitlist.
Go highlighted that many elderly Filipinos are still on the waitlist because the current budget only covers those already enrolled.
He raised this issue during a Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) budget hearing on September 24.
The senator reminded the committee that the monthly social pension is a right provided by Republic Act No. 9994, the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.
Go, who also co-authored Republic Act No. 11916 that increased the social pension amount, emphasized that seniors deserve better support.
He noted that DSWD Secretary Rex Gatchalian had not yet requested the additional funding needed from the Development Budget Coordination Committee (DBCC).
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