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The signing of the Memorandum of Agreement held recently at the Operations Control of the DSWD Field Office Eight, which was represented by Assistant Regional Director for Administration, Virginia Idano (front, right). With Agusa of PHILPOST (third from left) are Land Bank - Tacloban (Real branch) Branch Head, Marol Reposar (first from left) and Miranda Varon, Postal Bank Vice-President for Eastern Visayas (second from lelft).For the first quarter of this year, the DSWD Field Office Eight will pursue the door-to-door delivery of social pension for indigent senior citizens of ten remote municipalities of the region, using the services of the Philippine Postal Corporation (PHILPOST). The pilot-testing for three months will be undertaken by all regions to determine timely delivery of the cash grants, and efficiency and cost-effectiveness of the door-to-door delivery.

Previously, when the Social Pension Program started in 2011, the DSWD Field Office Eight conducted the distribution at the municipal plaza, and in other areas, the agency transferred the funds to the local government units for the latter to handle the giving out of cash grants.

A total of 1, 180 senior citizens from Limasawa in Southern Leyte province, San Jose de Buan, Almagro, and Tagapul-an of Samar, Jipapad in Eastern Samar, and Silvino Lobos, Lapining, Gamay, San Vicenter, and Capul of Northern Samar, will receive the quarterly stipend of Php 1,500.00, right in their own homes.

The DSWD Field Office Eight, under the leadership of Regional Director Remia Tapispisan and the PHILPOST, through Lorna Agusa, recently entered into a memorandum of agreement for the three – month mode of delivery.

“The DSWD is the lead agency in the implementation of the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizen to augment the daily subsistence and other medical needs of Filipino indigent senior citizens, while the PHILPOST has a facility that can service the nationwide distribution of cash grants to Social Pension beneficiaries who are indigent senior citizens with disability, bedridden, and residing in far flung areas as priority target beneficiaries for the door-to-door delivery.”