THE Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens (SPISC) is still being implemented by the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) even as the National Commission on Senior Citizens (NCSC) has assumed the distribution of cash gifts to octogenarians, nonagenarians, and centenarians, an agency official said.
“The DSWD is still implemented the social pension, while the NCSC attends to octogenarians, nonagerians, centenarians. This is the milestone. The funds are for the 80,85,90, 95 at 100 years seniors. mga seniors, said director Edmond Monteverde of the agency’s Protective Services Bureau (PSB).
Republic Act 11892 or the “Expanded Centenarians Act,” provides senior citizens reaching the milestone ages of 80, 85, 90, and 95 a cash gift of P10,000 each and a felicitation letter. Upon reaching the age of 100, the senior citizen will get P100,000 and a congratulatory letter from the President.
All these benefits are given to eligible senior citizens through the NCSC starting this 2025 as the Department of Budget and Management (DBM) already downloaded the budget directly to the Commission.
