Elderly

Dear PAO, I am a retired schoolteacher. I am living with my daughter who is married with three children since my husband passed away in 2009. I have been hearing about the new senior citizen law. Please apprise me of the benefits I can get from it being a senior citizen.

I welcome our classmates from the UST Medicine Class of 1965, many of them from abroad, who are here to celebrate our Sapphire Jubilee reunion and homecoming. This piece is for you, guys.

MANILA, Jan. 21 — Power distributor Manila Electric Company (Meralco) explained on Friday the requirements for applying for the senior citizens’ discount.

MANILA, Philippines—A proposed law seeking to provide mandatory family support for needy elderly members has been filed in Congress.

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MANILA, Philippines – Starting this month, senior citizens will enjoy a five-percent discount on their electricity bills, the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines – The Department of Finance (DOF) prefers an expansion of the discount on senior citizens’ purchase of medicines over an expanded value-added tax (VAT) exemption.

POWER DISCOUNTS for senior citizens will finally push through as the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) promises to pass final rules by this month.

THE COST to the Philippine government of services for the aged should remain manageable up to 2050, Standard & Poor’s (S&P) said in a country study released earlier this week.

Piloxing (Pilates and boxing) and other top trends for 2011 HERE ARE THE top health and fitness trends for 2011, based on the results of a worldwide survey among American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) certified professionals. These are the personal trainers, health fitness specialists, clinical exercise specialists, registered clinical exercise physiologists, health/fitness directors and…

SENIOR CITIZENS will now be able to get a 5% discount on more food and basic items after the Agriculture and Trade departments tagged additional commodities other than those mentioned under Republic Act 9994 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.

Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Secretary Corazon “Dinky” Soliman yesterday said the government will start distribution of the P500 pension for the marginalized elderly this coming 2011.

What do you do when the person you love who took care of you when you were young and taught you everything you know about raising your own children starts the slide back to infancy?

Eighty-year-old Richard Ow is scrapping by, earning less than $24,000 annually from his pension as a former post office worker since he retired two decades ago. By federal government standards, Ow isn’t impoverished. But by San Francisco calculations, the Chinatown resident is living in poverty.

The government has started penalizing senior citizens for its inability to raise revenues. A few days after Malacañang said it would not give priority to a proposal to remove the 12 percent value added tax (VAT) exemption enjoyed by the elderly, the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) had stricken off such privilege on water and…

MANILA, Philippines – Since the issuance of the implementation of the rules and regulation finally exempting them from paying the 12 percent E-VAT on some products and services, senior citizens have never been in a more euphoric mood than they are today.

The Department of Finance may propose the inclusion of senior citizens as beneficiaries of the government’s Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) program, instead of exempting them from the payment of value-added tax (VAT). Finance Assistant Secretary Teresa Habitan said that the Finance department will make a proposed amendment to lawmakers on Republic Act (RA) 9994, or…

MANILA, Philippines — The Department of Finance is pushing the recall of the value-added tax exemption for senior citizens and suggesting that this be replaced by an increase in their discount on purchases to 30 percent from 20 percent.

MANILA, Philippines — The Filipino way is for children to look after their parents when they can no longer take care of themselves. But not all elderly Filipinos are so lucky. Hundreds of them, perhaps more, have been abandoned by their children when they reached the twilight age of sickness, weakness, and dependence.

P6 billion is needed annually to provide a monthly subsistence pension to all Filipino senior citizens. But only a small fraction of that amount is available for 2011, the social welfare agency admitted on Saturday. Amid grumblings from some senior citizens’ groups, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) sought understanding for its “selective”…

There may have been a time you thought 40 was ancient, but if you have reached this age “category” yourself, you would probably love to bandy the thought that it is “the new 20.”

THE Malacañang-proposed budget for 2011 will amend the law granting P500 in monthly pension to every indigent senior citizen and disenfranchise about 850,000 of them, Sen. Ralph Recto said Friday.

MANILA, Philippines –  Indigent senior citizens aged 80 and above will receive a monthly pension of P500 starting next year as part of the Expanded Senior Citizens Act, Social Welfare Secretary Corazon Soliman said yesterday.

MANILA, Philippines—Distribution utilities and electric cooperatives will soon be mandated to provide discounts and subsidies to senior citizens for the electricity they consume. This is in accordance with the Expanded Senior Citizens Act.

MALLS and shopping centers in Metro Manila during office hours, says my husband, are “senior citizen country,” populated mostly by older people walking around in pairs, groups or all by their lonesome, enjoying the free air-conditioning, the convivial company of fellow retirees, or the attentive service of drivers, yayas, caregivers and apos (grandchildren).

AGE IS JUST a number, so goes an advertisement for a food supplement directed at senior citizens. Try telling that to the flight attendants of Philippine Airlines who, under their collective bargaining agreement, have to retire when they reach 40. And be ready to get a severe tongue lashing.

Filipinos can be proud of its strong support to the elderly. Not only do we have a set of laws for senior citizens that are the envy of many developing countries, our family support system remains positive, nurturing and appreciative.

Some business consultants and trainers of Business Coach, Inc. are over 60 years old. Whenever, they are asked if they are ready to retire, they will laugh and say “Of course not. Malakas pa kami sa kalabaw (We’re stronger than carabaos).”

The Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) has just issued the much-anticipated Revenue Regulations (RR) No. 7-2010 implementing the tax privileges granted under Republic Act (RA) No. 9994, or the “Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.”

MANILA, Philippines – The government yesterday came out with the revenue regulations pertaining to the tax privilege provisions of the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.