Elderly

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by Delon Porcalla – The Philippine Star, 22 Sep 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A committee of the House of Representatives approved yesterday a measure that will exempt working senior citizens from income tax payments being deducted by the Bureau of Internal Revenue from their monthly salaries.

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by Edu Punay (The Philippine Star), 4 Jun 2021 MANILA, Philippines — A bill seeking to double the monthly social pension of about three million indigent senior citizens from P500 to P1,000 was approved recently by the House of Representatives.

by Alexis Romero (The Philippine Star), 1 Jun 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Malacañang is against the proposal to allow fully vaccinated senior citizens to go out of their homes so they can contribute to economic recovery.

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by (Philstar.com), 29 May 2021 MANILA, Philippines — Senate President Vicente Sotto III has filed a bill seeking to raise social pensions for indigent senior citizens from the current P500 to at least P1,000 per month.

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by Lawrence Agcaoili (The Philippine Star), 24 Oct 2020 MANILA, Philippines —Only 20 percent of the 7.6 million senior citizens in the country are covered by either the Government Service Insurance System (GSIS) or Social Security System (SSS), the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) said.

by Rosette Adel (Philstar.com), 23 Oct 2020 MANILA, Philippines— The Board of Trustees of the Philippine Retirement Agency, an attached agency of the Department of Tourism, on Friday announced the suspension of issuance of the Special Retirees Residence Visa (SRRV) pending a review and possible amendments.

by Catherine Talavera (The Philippine Star), 22 Oct 2020 MANILA, Philippines — The Philippine Retirement Authority (PRA), an attached agency of the Department of Tourism (DOT), is set to re-assess the age requirement for foreigners seeking retirement in the country after senators raised job sufficiency and national security issues last Tuesday.

By: Leila B. Salaverria, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 8 Oct 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Senior citizens should be able to go to groceries and shopping malls during designated hours in a day in order to get their necessities, according to the National Commission of Senior Citizens, a newly formed government body.

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By Cai Ordinario, BusinessMirror, 22 Aug 2020 Elderly Filipinos could account for more than 20 percent of the country’s total health expenditures this year due to Covid-19 pandemic, according to the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA).

by Ian Nicolas Cigaral (Philstar.com), 17 Aug 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Filipino senior citizens are forced to dip into their own savings to shoulder rising health costs that come with age, highlighting the insufficiency of public health resources that have come under intense scrutiny amid the pandemic and corruption allegations.

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by Shiela Crisostomo (The Philippine Star, 21 Jun 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Not only are the elderly more prone to contracting the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) but they are also vulnerable to bouts of depression and anxiety which are now associated with the illness, according to the Natasha Goulbourn Foundation (NGF).

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By Itchie G. Cabayan, People’s Tonight, 19 Jun 2020 SOON, the senior citizens in Manila who have concerns or queries will only have to dial a certain number and need no longer go all the way to City Hall.

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by Neil Arwin Mercado, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 29 Apr 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Several lawmakers have asked the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) to reconsider its move to bar senior citizens living in areas placed on either enhanced or general community quarantine from leaving their homes.

by Gabriel Pabico Lalu, Philippine Daily Inquirer, 29 Apr 2020 MANILA, Philippines — Senior citizens on Facebook have launched a group dedicated to proving that not all of them are vulnerable to COVID-19, as the government’s lockdown regulations have barred the elderly from leaving their homes.

by ABS-CBN News, 16 Apr 2020 About 9.7 million senior citizens will get 6 months of their pension in advance this April to help them cope with the coronavirus pandemic that prompted a lockdown of the entire Luzon and several regions, a lawmaker said Thursday.

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By Simon Kennedy, 13 Jan 2020 Middle age is miserable, according to a new economic study which pinpoints 47.2 years old as the moment of peak unhappiness in the developed world.

By Analou De Vera, Manila Bulletin, 10 Nov 2019 Employers should provide their workers, who are senior citizens and PWDs (persons with disabilities), with equal wages and benefits, the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) said on Sunday.

by Christia Marie Ramos, Philippine Daily Inquirer, Aug 29, 2019 MANILA, Philippines – Senator Grace Poe has filed a bill that will protect the elderly from abuse, neglect, and exploitation.