" Despite progress in recent years, Philippines’s social protection system retains serious gaps. For example, the majority of the elderly citizens of the country do not have income security, i.e. do not have a pension, despite a significant increase in allocation. This is in contrast to countries like China, Thailand, Mongolia, Brunei Darussalam and Timor-Leste which have considerably expanded their coverage through the use of universal tax funded pensions.
The pension gap is happening at the same time that life expectancy for Filipinos is rising on average. Between 2000 and 2015, life expectancy rose by five years, which is the fastest increase since the 1960s. This makes the low pension coverage a particularly troubling problem, creating additional financial burdens for family, as the ratio between elderly parents and adult children rise.
In 2017, the government made efforts to increase benefit levels of senior citizens receiving contributory pension and to increase the social pension coverage of indigent senior citizens. However, around forty per cent of Filipino senior citizens are still left without income security.
On the positive side though, social protection remains one of the major agenda in the country as reflected in the Philippine Development Plan 2017-2022, launched in January 2017. The plan has identified adopting and institutionalizing the Social Protection Floor as one of the strategies to achieve universal social protection under the Strategic framework to reduce vulnerability of individuals and families. Specific strategies include establishing an unemployment insurance system, enhancing social protection for the informal sector, improving the social pension system, expanding health insurance packages, and strengthening mechanisms to ensure enrolment in the social security system, among others. Further, it also highlights the need to address implementation issues on convergence, planning, mainstreaming at the local level and better data collection.
Khalid Hassan, Director of ILO Manila Country Office, recommends, “ILO’s new report shows many countries, regionally and across the world, are prioritizing their social protection systems. We think this is a good time for Philippines to follow the same path and extend protection to its elderly through the launch of a universal pension.”
For more information, please contact: Nuno Meira Simoes da Cunha, Senior Technical Specialist on Social Protection, International Labour Organization at cunhanolder people? I think that is the height of lack of sensitivity. To think that this article was written i. 2017.
Let me rpeat my past article on senior citiEns re ently just to emphasize te need for immediate attntion on our plight.
Noong 2010 ang pension na P500 ay makabibili ng 14 kilos na bigas dahil ang halaga ng bigas ay P35 por kilo.
Ngayong 2020 ang kilo ay P50 por kilo kung kaya't ang P500 pension ay makabibili na lang ng 10 kilo ng bigas.
One kilo of rice = 4 cups.
Ang isang kilo ng bigas ay maaaring maubos sa loob ng 2 araw para sa senior citizen. Sa loob ng isang buwan, kailangan ng 15 kilos ng senior citizen.
Sa halagang P50 por kilo ng bigas, ang 15 kilos kada buwan ay nagkakahalaga ng P750.
Sapat ba ang P500 para madagdgan ng taon ang buhay ng senior citizen?
CONGRESS AND SENATE: please recalculate the benefits for senior citizens, immediately before they expire.Kailan kayo makikinig sa aming hinai g?
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