SOCIAL workers in Central Luzon crammed on Labour Day to take advantage of an extension of four to seven days in the distribution of the government’s cash aid to poor families who had been locked indoors since March 17 due to the Luzon quarantine.
The extra four days granted to the provinces of Aurora, Bataan, Nueva Ecija, Pampanga, Tarlac and Zambales, and seven more days to Bulacan province were all they would get, said Reiner Grospe, public information officer of the Department of Social Welfare and Development in Central Luzon.“Finished or not, they have to submit their liquidation report to the DSWD. The report is one of the prerequisites the downloading of funds for the second tranche , ” he said.
As of Thursday, the DSWD had given the 6,500 pesos emergency subsidy to 856,790 of 1.8 million families in the region. The money is provided under the Social Amelioration Programme of the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act, or Republic Act No. 11469. In Bataan province, workers from the Alyansa ng mga Manggagawa sa Bataan-Bataan Labour Alliance and the Freeport Workers League used social media for the noise barrage they used to conduct on the streets.They posted videos of themselves banging pots and utensils online to demand the resumption of the wage subsidy given by the Department of Labour and Employment. — Philippine Daily Inquirer/ANN
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