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A total of 52,400 senior citizens in Nueva Ecija’s first congressional district received financial assistance amid the pandemic. The aid came from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) and the family of 1st District Rep. Estrellita Suansing. Suansing, who personally supervised the distribution of P1,000 to every senior citizen at the municipal gym […]
Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat announced the approval of P221,810,000 cash assistance for 44,362 workers from Western Visayas under the Department of Tourism (DOT) – Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Cash Assistance Program under the Bayanihan 2. Of the total number of beneficiaries in the region, Negros Occidental logged 16,149 workers who have been approved […]
Tourism Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat announced that 465,530 tourism workers nationwide who have turned jobless because of the pandemic have been approved to receive cash assistance under the DOT-DOLE Cash Assistance Program of the Bayanihan 2 amounting to P2,327,650,000. Of this number, 39,429 are from the National Capital Region (NCR); 26,908 from Cordillera Administrative Region (CAR); […]
Department of Tourism (DOT) Secretary Bernadette Romulo-Puyat and Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) Secretary Silvestre Bello III disclosed that 67,347 beneficiaries from the National Capital Region (NCR), Bulacan, Cavite, Laguna, and Rizal, collectively known as the NCR Plus, have been approved to receive the one-time P5,000 financial assistance under the DOT-DOLE Cash-For-Work Program of the Bayanihan 2. Of […]
The Cabinet should quickly roll out the “ayuda to the poor” which Malacañang guaranteed as forthcoming in areas under enhanced community quarantine, Senator Joel Villanueva said. “That will also be in compliance with the President’s order,” Villanueva stressed. “Ang mahigpit na pangangailangan ng mga tao ngayon ay ibang klaseng ECQ o Emergency Cash sa Quarantine.” […]
Senator Leila de Lima has filed a measure seeking to provide direct cash assistance to small-scale farmers and municipal fisherfolk whose livelihoods have been most severely impacted by the prolonged lockdowns and the economic recession brought by the COVID-19 pandemic. De Lima, chairperson of the Senate Committee on Social Justice, Welfare and Rural Development filed […]
The Philippine Red Cross (PRC) turned over a multi-purpose cash grant to about 3,000 families in Cebu who were affected by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. PRC chair and chief executive officer, Senator Dick Gordon, led the virtual turnover of the cash grant recently attended by the American Red Cross and the local government […]
The Eastern Samar provincial government will provide financial assistance to confirmed coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) patients in the province. Governor Ben Evardone said those patients who recovered from the illness will each receive P5,000, while P10,000 will be given to the family of those who died. “The assistance is primarily aimed at providing socio-economic relief to […]
Funds for the proposed Bangon Pamilyang Pilipino (BPP) Assistance Program that aims to provide low-income and vulnerable households at least P10,000 in cash assistance are available under unutilized appropriations and unobligated funds in the national budget, according to Camarines Sur Rep. LRay Villafuerte. Villafuerte said a third cash subsidy for families hardest hit by the global economic […]
Residents of Tanauan, Leyte honored the thousands of people who died during the onslaught of Super Typhoon Yolanda seven years ago in simple but solemn rites. For Eugie Cinco, 22, the annual commemoration will always be a meaningful as it honors those who died and remember the struggles and hardships of those who had survived. […]