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 on September 28, 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 on Wednesday next week and in Bugasong to 40 seniors the following day,” Tagle said.
She added two centenarians will be given financial assistance in Bugasong town.
Under the program, older citizens who are 85 to 89 years old will receive P2,000; those 90 to 94 years old will get P3,000; 95 to 99 years old will be given P5,000, and 100 years old and above will receive P30,000.
The program is an initiative of Gov. Rhodora J. Cadiao after learning that many Antiqueño senior citizens do not even have money to buy milk and medicine.
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 P1.04 million to 85 to 99-year-old beneficiaries and P210,000 to seven centenarians.
The assistance to centenarians is apart from what they receive from the Department of Social Welfare and Development.