A BICOLANO congressman on Tuesday said establishments and government agencies cannot deny the discounts due persons with ...

MANILA – House Speaker Martin Romualdez on Friday expressed full support for the Department of Social Welfare and Development ...

In a legal opinion issued on Jan. 27, the DOJ clarified that Republic Act No. 10754, which expands benefits for PWDs, does not require verification of a PWD ID before a senior citizen can be ...

Denial or withholding of PWD benefits and privileges due to unverified PWD ID cards or when the verification results to 'no records found' in the registry would undoubtedly defeat the purpose of ...

“Such denial and withholding of PWD benefits and privileges by reason of unverified PWD ID card constitutes a violation of the rights of PWDs to avail of the said benefits and privileges,” the ...

The application and approval for the PWD ID applications, however, would remain with local government units. But to successfully implement the new system, the administrative orders would first ...

The basic step to guaranteeing this is through the use of an ID card system, but as is quite apparent from the current decentralized PWD ID system, this can be prone to abuse. Since the PWD IDs ...

Ysabel Maria J. Zamora told lawmakers before the House persons with disabilities (PWD) panel approved the proposal. “The unnumbered substitute bill seeks to address these concerns by extending the ...