96 Antique seniors to receive financial aid

Antique Governor Rhodora Cadiao (second from left) extends financial assistance to senior citizens 85 years old and above. (AJP file photo)

SAN JOSE DE BUENAVISTA, Antique — The Provincial Social Welfare and Development Office (PSWDO) is set to release financial assistance to 96 elderly Antiqueños next week.

In an interview Friday, Noemi Tagle of PSWDO-Antique said Antiqueños, 85 years old and above, are given cash assistance under the provincial government’s “Kabalaka kang Gobernadora kay Lolo kag Lola” program or the Governor’s Concern for Grandfather and Grandmother.

“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.

She added that two centenarians will be given financial assistance in Bugasong town.

Under the program, those who are 85 to 89 years old, will receive PHP2,000, 90 to 94 years old will get PHP3,000, 95 to 99 years old will be given PHP5,000, and 100 years old and above will receive PHP30,000.

The program is an initiative of Governor Rhodora J. Cadiao after learning that many Antiqueno senior citizens do not even have money to buy milk and medicines.

She said the cash assistance will go a long way in helping the province’s senior constituents. It is given annually to qualified beneficiaries.

As of this month, the provincial government, through the PSWDO, has released PHP1.04 million to 85 to 99-year-old beneficiaries and PHP210,000 to seven centenarians.

The assistance to centenarians is apart from what they receive from the Department of Social Welfare and Development. (Annabel Consuelo Petinglay/PNA)

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