SAN JOSE, Antique – The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) will release financial assistance to 96 elderly Antiqueños this week.
Noemi Tagle of PSWDO-Antique said Antiqueños who are 85 years old and older will avail themselves of the cash assistance under the provincial government’s “Kabalaka kang Gobernadora kay Lolo kag Lola” program.
“We will release the cash assistance to 54 seniors in San Remigio Wednesday next week and in Bugasong to 40 seniors the following day,” Tagle said last Friday.
She added that two centenarians will be given financial assistance in Bugasong.
Under the program, persons who are 85 to 89 years old will receive P2,000 each while those who are 90 to 94 years old, P3,000; those 95 to 99 years old, P5,000; and those 100 years old and older, P30,000.
The program is an initiative of Gov. Rhodora Cadiao, who said the annual cash assistance will go a long way in helping the province’s senior constituents.
In September, the provincial government – through the PSWDO – has released P1.04 million to 85- to 99-year-old beneficiaries and P210,000 to seven centenarians. (With PNA/PN)
