Tambuling Batangas Publication May 16-22, 2018 Issue

BALITA DSWD pushes for amendments to Solo Parents Welfare Act QUEZON CITY- - Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) Officer-In- Charge Emmanuel Leyco calls for the urgent need to amend the Republic Act (RA) 8972 or the Solo Parents Welfare Act of 2000. The call was made during the Quezon City’s Solo Parent’s Day Celebration in Memorial Quezon City last Saturday, April 28, 2018. Leyco emphasized the urgent need to amend RA 8972 to make it more responsive to the emerging needs of solo parents and their children. He said that the government needs to help solo parents because they solely take care of their children. “The national and local government units should implement programs and services which are responsive to the needs of solo parents, whose number is increasing at an alarming rate. Solo parents and their children should be provided with basic programs such as livelihood and employment, health and education,” Leyco added. The amendments to RA 8972 are included in the priority legislative measures which the Department is advocating. DSWD, as the lead agency in social protection, together with other national government agencies (NGAs), non-government organizations (NGOs) and the local government of Quezon City held an Information and Serbisyo Caravan at the Quezon Memorial Circle on April 28 as the Department’s way of showing support to the city’s Solo Parents’ Day celebration. The local government of Quezon City passed City Ordinance No. SP- 2354-S-2014 mandating the celebration of Solo Parents’ Week every last week of April to give due recognition to the city’s solo parent residents. So far, Quezon City is the only local government unit which has come up with an ordinance institutionalizing a special week/day for solo parents. This year’s Solo Parents’ Day celebration features an array of free services, such as legal, wellness like haircut, massage, among others, for solo parent participants coming from the different barangays of Quezon City and nearby cities. The event was organized by the QC LGU together with 4ks Task Force on Solo Association, Inc., the Federation of Solo Parents in Luzvimin, and partner government agencies and non-government organizations. This year’s theme is “Sulong sa Bagong Mukha ng Solo”, which emphasizes the image of solo parents as strong, empowered, responsible and resilient. Duterte raises death, disability benefits for workers PRESIDENT Rodrigo R. Duterte has signed an executive order increasing monthly employees’ compensation (EC) benefits and carer’s allowance in the public and private sectors. Under Executive Order (EO) No. 54 he signed on May 8, Duterte granted a P1,150 across-the-board hike in EC monthly disability pension of all EC permanent disability pensioners and qualified beneficiaries in the public sector. The increase took effect in January 2017 pursuant to the Letter of Instruction (LOI) No. 1286 series of 1983, which provides automatic increase every time the Social Security System (SSS) and the Government Service Insurance System increase the monthly income benefits for non-work-related contingencies. In January 2017, the SSS increased its monthly income benefits to P1,000. Section 2 of the EO provides that “SSS shall continue to implement the minimum EC monthly disability and survivorship pension in the private sector, which in no case shall be less than P2,000.” The SSS shall also continue to grant the entitlement of primary beneficiaries of deceased Permanent Total Disability (PTD) pensioners from 80 percent to 100 percent of the PTD pensioner’s monthly pension. “The amount of carer’s allowance granted to EC permanent disability pensioners in the public and private sectors is hereby increased from P575 to P1,000 per month,” the EO read. According to the President’s order, the reimbursement rates of professional fees of physicians shall also increase from P100 to P400 for general practitioners and from P150 to P600 for specialists. Mayo 16-22, 2018 PGC Holds the 1st Job Fair for Senior High School Graduates THE PROVINCIAL Government of Cavite thru the Provincial Public Employment Service Office in partnership with the Department of Education – Cavite facilitated the 1st Job Fair for Senior High School graduates at the Provincial Gymnasium in Trece Martires City on May 10, 2018. More than 3,600 job vacancies were posted by thirteen (13) participating companies in the field of manufacturing, production, retail, merchandise, exporting and process outsourcing. Over 500 job seekers flocked at the job fair. They have also availed various services offered by the national agencies including Social Security System (SSS), PhilHealth, and Pag IBIG Fund which can be used for their basic employment requirements. Relocatees.. ay may mahalagang responsibilidad sa komunidad. Hindi lamang kami supplier o distributor ng kuryente. Nais naming ipakita sa inyo na kami ay handang tumugon at sumuporta sa mga pangangailangan at layunin sa pamamagitan ng pagbibigay ng sapat, ligtas, maaasahan at tapat na paglilingkod. Ang Meralco ay kabahagi ng inyong buhay, kaagapay ng inyong pag-unlad para sa mas maliwanag na bukas. Binigyang diin naman ni Mayor Dimacuha na sa pamamagitan ng partnership ng pamahalaang lungsod at ng Meralco, DILG ... implementing the local government code (LGC) and other reforms. International speakers will include Forum of Federations President and CEO Rupak Chattopadhyay; former Secretary of the Inter State Council Secretariat, Ministry of Home Affairs Government of India (India’s peak intergovernmental agency) Ravi Dhingra; senior advocate and a constitutional legal advisor to the President of Nepal Dr. Surya Dhungel; External Expert Panel on devolution of the Scottish Parliament member Dr Sandra Leon; Curtin University Law School Professor Bertus De Villiers; University of the Western Cape’s Dullah Omar Institute Jaap de In her short message, Ms. Cherry Lou D. De Mesa, Cavite Schools Division Superintendent stressed that the job fair will be an avenue to inspire the newly graduates and a technique to motivate the job seekers to have a good perspective in life with decent opportunities coming their way. Two hundred applicants qualified for the first screening and were asked to report to different agencies for further assessment. The event was also attended by personnel from the Department of Education (Dep-Ed- Cavite), Cavite Office of Public Safety (COPS), Provincial Information and Community Affairs Department (PICAD) and General Services Office (GSO). mula sa pahina 1 palapit ng palapit tayo sa layuning paliwanagin ang mga barangay ng lungsod. “Sana po ay mapasama na ang Isla Verde,” dagdag pa ng Mayor. Pinasalamatan ni Congressman Mariño ang lahat ng tumulong upang maisakatuparan ang proyektong ito at sinabing ito ay magandang halimbawa ng pagtutulungan. Binanggit din niya ang ibayong kaunlaran na maasahan sa pagdami ng investors sa lungsod at ang dala nitong trabaho at paglago ng ekonomiya lalo na sa implementasyon ng Startoll- Pinamucan diversion road. (PIO Batangas City) mula sa pahina 1 Visser (LLB, LLM, PhD); and Forum of Federations Executive Director for Asia and Australia Phillip Gonzalez. The DILG will also be launching a federalism roadshow next month advocating and holding massive information drives for federal governance, working closely with all stakeholders for the campaign. “The people’s desire for change will be the driving force of this campaign. It’s time to address the different concerns of all who will be affected by the constitutional reform,” Malaya said. A hundred local and international participants are expected to attend the event on Friday and Saturday.

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