Cagayan de Oro City — More than 48,800 senior citizens in Northern Mindanao will be benefiting from the Social Pension given by the Department of Social Welfare and Development for this year.

This after 29,499 senior citizens were validated as an addition to those qualified to the program which provides a subsidy of P1,500 every quarter to augment their needs such as medicine and food.

Qualified senior citizens are those considered to be indigent, and are aged 66 years old above and are not beneficiaries of any pension such as SSS, GSIS, among others.

Written by Charmaine P. Tadlas, DSWD