Nearly 10 million small farmers and fisherfolks in the country will enjoy lifetime pensions if and when this House bill from two Bicol lawmakers get enacted. ManilaBulletin READ:
Bicol Saro Party-list Rep. Brian Raymund Yamsuan and Camarines Sur 2nd district Rep. LRay Villafuerte jointly filed a measure that would institutionalize a lifetime pensions for some 9.7 million small farmers and fisherfolks in the country.
To be managed by the Philippine Crop Insurance Corporation , the APF is seen to benefit some 9.7 million small farmers and fisherfolks, most of whom live in poverty. "Providing them with pension benefits when they reach old age is a long-overdue measure that Congressman LRay and I hope will be approved in this Congress,” added the neophyte solon.
The PCIC, which is an attached agency of the Department of Agriculture , is also authorized under the measure to determine the criteria for eligibility of the potential agricultural pensioners, in coordination with other relevant government agencies.
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