The House Committee on Ways and Means chaired by Albay Representative Joey Sarte Salceda, in a joint meeting with the Committee on Senior Citizens chaired by SENIOR CITIZENS Party-list Representative Rodolfo Ordanes, approved the revenue provisions of the substitute bill proposing employment for able senior citizens.
The proposed “Employment Opportunities for Senior Citizens and Private Entities Incentives Act” is the consolidation of eight measures seeking to grant private enterprises that employ senior citizens for at least six months, with a 25 percent tax deduction from their gross revenue for the total amount paid in salary, wages, benefits and trainings.
The joint panel also resumed their meeting with the Special Committee on Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) chaired by Agusan del Sur Representative Alfelito Bascug, and approved the substitute bills to HB 10061, 10062 and 10063.
“HB 10061 seeks an enhanced discount for senior citizens and PWDs when they purchase goods and services.”
“HB 10061 seeks an enhanced discount for senior citizens and PWDs when they purchase goods and services,” Salceda said, explaining the intent of the substitute measure. “Itong bill is very simple. Kapag may promo ka, the discount stays.”
HB 10062, which would rationalize the benefits and privileges of senior citizens and PWDs, was approved with amendments.
Meanwhile, HB 10063 seeks to promote the welfare of senior citizens and PWDs through the inclusion of senior citizens and PWD services in the eGov PH super app.
The eGov super app is an automated system that would integrate all government online services into one platform, according to Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) Undersecretary David Almirol Jr.
“The app would centralize government online services, and amplify the use of national ID issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority.”
Almirol added that the app would centralize government online services, and amplify the use of national ID issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).
“If we’re able to integrate the national ID system, we’re able now to automatically identify who are the senior citizens so that we don’t need to repeatedly ask them to prove that they are senior citizens,” he explained.
