by Cecille Suerte Felipe – The Philippine Star, 14 Dec 2021
MANILA, Philippines — The Senate approved on third and final reading yesterday the Expanded Solo Parents Welfare Act, which will benefit around 15 million single parents, 95 percent of whom are women.
With 22 affirmative votes, zero negative and no abstention, senators passed Senate Bill 1411, which amended Republic Act 8972.
Sen. Risa Hontiveros, who chairs the Senate committee on women, children and family relations and gender equality, thanked her colleagues for the passage of the bill.
“It is a victory for solo parents who are striving to improve the welfare of their children,” Hontiveros said.
She said the salient features of the bill are monthly cash subsidy of P1,000 per indigent solo parent, automatic PhilHealth coverage and apprenticeship programs at the Technical Education Skills and Development Authority for qualified single parents and their children.
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September
Monthly Observances:
Health, Safety, and Sanitation Month
Clean-up Month
Civil Service Month
National Peace Consciousness Month
Social Security Month
Rule of Law Month
National Teachers’ Month (Sept 5-Oct 5)
Weekly Observances:
Sept 17 – 23:
World Clean and Green Week
Week 2: Education Week
Week 4: Medicine Week
Last Week: Family Week
Daily Observances:
Third Saturday: International Coastal Clean-up Day
Third Monday: World Health Day
Last Friday: National Maritime Day
Sept 8: National Literacy Day
Sept 15: Philippine Medicine Day
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