Solo parents to get P5T aid

[Little_Mermaid88]

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THE Cebu City Council approved yesterday an ordinance granting P5,000 yearly to solo parents, despite objections from two members who worry that it won’t give help where it’s really needed.
The City will appropriate P10 million for the assistance.


However, not all registered solo parents in Cebu City are eligible for the financial assistance, said Councilor Gerardo Carillo, one of the proponents. At present, some 800 solo parents are registered in Cebu City.


The annual assistance will be limited, however, to registered voters who have voted for three consecutive elections; they must be a resident of the city, as certified by a barangay captain; and they must not earn more than P60,000 a year.


During the session yesterday, the council passed the ordinance with nine votes in favor, two against and three abstentions.


Councilors Hanz Abella and Mary Ann de Los Santos voted against the ordinance, which spelled out the mechanics and criteria for how solo parents can avail themselves of help from the City.


They questioned the criteria for qualified beneficiaries.

De los Santos questioned a provision that states a solo parent can only claim the assistance after voting in three elections, which means those who have never voted would have to wait nine years.

De los Santos added that solo parents who are 18 to early 20s are the ideal beneficiaries of the aid.

Instead of giving cash, she added, the City should give solo parents training or livelihood grants.
“We teach them how to fish. We do not give them fish as a long-term solution,” de los Santos told her colleagues.

The ordinance may also be misinterpreted as the City’s encouraging individuals to become solo parents or for mothers and fathers to pretend to be separated just to avail themselves of the benefit, she said.

Councilor Hanz Abella, who also voted against it, said he found the ordinance’s requirements too stringent.
Councilors Eugenio Gabuya Jr., Noel Wenceslao and James Cuenco abstained.
Wenceslao said his abstention does not mean he is against the ordinance; he is not just convinced that the City can provide the financial assistance if the number of registered solo parents will increase.

“We might have a problem in giving the assistance in the future,” Wenceslao said.

The Office of the Mayor, through the City Administrator and the City Treasurer’s Office, along with the City’s Department of Social Welfare and Services and the barangays, will be in charge of releasing the cash aid.


Under the ordinance, individuals who may qualify as solo parents include those who are those left alone with the responsibility of parenthood due to the death, detention or mental or physical incapacity of a spouse. Also qualified are those who are legally separated, “provided that he or she is entrusted with the custody of the children.”

The ordinance will cover an unmarried mother or father who decided “to keep and to rear children instead of having others care for them or give them up to a welfare institution.”


Any person or family member who assumes the responsibility of taking care of a child can also qualify as a solo parent, under the ordinance.

source: Solo parents to get P5T aid | Sun.Star

[jEiiWhO08]

nindot unta ni.
pero ang nakabati kay ang mga naka.vote ra ug 3 consecutive ang matagaan ani.
unsaon namn lang tong mga 18-20 nga mga solo parent? tsk3!

sakto si Delos Santos nga wa siya ni.uyon ani.

Councilors Hanz Abella and Mary Ann de Los Santos voted against the ordinance, which spelled out the mechanics and criteria for how solo parents can avail themselves of help from the City.


They questioned the criteria for qualified beneficiaries.

De los Santos questioned a provision that states a solo parent can only claim the assistance after voting in three elections, which means those who have never voted would have to wait nine years.

De los Santos added that solo parents who are 18 to early 20s are the ideal beneficiaries of the aid.

Instead of giving cash, she added, the City should give solo parents training or livelihood grants.
“We teach them how to fish. We do not give them fish as a long-term solution,” de los Santos told her colleagues.

kana ta nga mga edad ilang gi.prioritize kay kanang naka.vote na ug ka.tulo, pwd namn na makatrabaho. amawa ani nila. tsk3!

[vahnhelsing]

nindot ni pero dili maayo in some way.
sakto si delos santos, maypag train ang mga solo parent kaysa
hatagan diretso ug kwarta. I think dugay na ni gisigihan
ug stress out sa mga kamao jud nga ang kwarta dapat para
training or livelihood instead nga imong ihatag murag limos (sorry pero maoy akong
tan-aw mura jud ug limos). Malikayan sad ang dakong binuang ug
pangurakot unta.

[kit_cebu]

ang mobu ug utok ani kay "nindot" ang huna-huna...

kanindot aning pagka-divert sa deduction sa SENIOR CITIZEN assistance...gi-divert sa sayong nag-biga2x nga wa nag-condom...

[akoLoloNinja]

Ganahan kaayo ang uban konsehal ug ing-ani nga mga ordinances kay maggamit man gud ni nla sa pagpamolitika. Just like what they did to the senior citizen funds.

[zairon1988]

batia ani, maypag gi adto ni sa mga senyor...tsk tsk or gpuno ang pundo para sa CCMC

[7DMM]

The senior citizens needed it more.kanang mga batan-on papangitaa sa na ug trabaho

[Scott Bernard]

5k per year?

Maypa ako nalang mohatag 5k every month sa single mom of my choice...

[necrotic freak]

From the expense of the tax payers!

Wa gyud ni hinungdang si Carillo, para lang gyud maka hino kunuhay ug balaod. Kumusta na kahang ang koirks ni carillo?

Sayo kaayo namalit ug boto si konsehal dah, kwarta pajud sa mga taw, siguro na iyang 800 votes sa mga solo parents.

Ug gusto gyud unta siya mo tabang, tagaan nila ug gamayng panginabuhian ang mga solo parent. Dili kay 5k kada tuig, unsa ragud tawn mahimo anang kantidara sulod sa usa ka tuig?

[brian joshua]

The senior citizens needed it more.kanang mga batan-on papangitaa sa na ug trabaho

mao, lig-on pa ug tuhod ug lawas unya magsalig nlng ani? pagka litsugas.