Should he earn a Senate seat in May, independent senatorial candidate Panfilo “Ping” M. Lacson will look into the alleged discrimination experienced by senior citizens regarding pension payments.
Lacson said he is mulling revisiting the relevant laws to see if there is a legislative solution to this, after he learned of one such instance during a Konsultahang Bayan forum in Cebu last week.
“During the forum, a seaman said his parents were denied pension supposedly because he is a seaman and that he earns a lot. That’s the wrong approach,” he said. “We’ll look into that by way of legislation, so we can come up with an institutionalized solution.”
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