SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique – The Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) has already released the social pension (SocPen) of 29,360 indigent senior citizens in Antique.
DSWD Antique focal person Lovelyn Ocbian, in an interview Wednesday, said the recipients from 14 towns out of the 18 municipalities in the province received their pension for the first semester of this year.
They each received PHP3,000 as support from the national government for their sustenance.
“We are targeting to finish the release in the four remaining towns before the end of this month,” she said, adding that they are still waiting for the schedule of the remaining towns of Anini-y, Patnongon, Laua-an, and in Culasi with 11,080 senior beneficiaries.
Antique has 40,440 senior citizen-beneficiaries of the social pension.
DSWD started to release the pension on Feb. 2 for 2,236 beneficiaries from the town of Tobias Fornier.
“The seniors need not have to go to the sites where we are releasing the SocPen but that they could authorize someone on their behalf,” Ocbian said. (PNA)