Senior citizens and PWDs are among the vulnerable sectors included under the agency's social amelioration program. READ: Senior citizens need greater social protection, health services during COVID-19 pandemic — think tank | 'Easy to overlook': Social amelioration lapses weigh doubly on PWDs, advocates sayState-run think tank Philippine Institute for Development Studies in late July said that senior citizens need greater health services and social pensions amid the coronavirus pandemic. Advocates in the disability community also say that lapses in the distribution of social amelioration aid weigh doubly on PWDs, who have more pressing and more specific medical needs. "DSWD is implementing manual and digital distribution methods through financial service providers (FSPs) and cash cards for the second tranche of SAP. "Meanwhile, the Department is also conducting house-to-house delivery of cash aid under the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens and the Centenarian Act.

Source: Philippine Star August 10, 2020 04:07 UTC