SENIOR CITIZEN ACT

R.A. 7432
PRIVILEGES
 20% discount
 Exemption from the payment of individual income taxes
 5% discount on monthly utilization or water and electricity
 Free medical and dental services
 Exemption from training frees for socio-economic programs
 Educational assistance
 Continuance of benefits – GSIS, SSS, and Pag-Ibig
 Special discounts
 Express lanes
 Death benefits
Additional privileges for indigent
Senior Citizens

Additional privileges for DSWD-

accredited centers
EXEMPTIONS
 Discount and VAT exemption – Credit Cards
 Double discounts
 Tax deduction
CONDITIONS FOR AVAILMENT
 Senior Citizen identification card
 Philippine passport
 Other documents showing the age and Filipino citizenship
INCENTIVES FOR FOSTER CARE
 Realty tax holiday for the first 5 years
 Priority in construction or maintenance of provincial and
municipal roads leading to aforesaid home, residential
community or retirement village
ADDITIONAL INCENTIVE
- For private entities that employ Senior Citizens
 Additional tax deduction

CONDITIONS:
 6 months employment
 Annual income of Senior Citizens does not exceed the latest
poverty threshold
CRIMINAL OFFENSES
- Acts punished
 Refusal to honor the Senior Citizen card
 Abuse of Senior Citizen privileges
 REFUSAL TO HONOR THE SENIOR
CITIZEN CARD
 Intentionally depriving the Senior Citizen of the 20% discount.
 Distinguishing branded from generic medicine
 Setting a maximum amount of purchase to be discounted
 Limiting to discount to certain days of the week or hours of
the day
Abuse of Privileges
 Any person who:
- Use several purchase booklets
- Purchasing medicine – not for the use of the Senior Citizen
- Misuse of the Senior Citizen ID

 Medical practitioners who:

- Issue a prescription named after a Senior Citizen to another
person
PENALTIES
- Refusal to honor the Senior Citizen Card
 Imprisonment from 2 years to 6 years
First offense: P50,000.00 - P100,000.00
Subsequent offense: P100,00.00 – P200,000.00
PENALTIES
- Abuse of Senior Citizen privileges
 Imprisonment for 6 months
 Fine of P50,000.00 – P100,000.00
OFFICE OF SENIOR CITIZENS AFFAIRS

QUALIFICATIONS OF THE OSCA HEAD

 Filipino citizen
 Resident for at least one year
 Registered voter
 Able to read and write
 Physically and mentally capable
 Bona Fide member of a duly registered Senior Citizen
organization
 Good moral Character
 At least a high school graduate
HOME DEVELOPMENT
MUTUAL FUND LAW
R.A. 1752
• Objective of the law
- To motivate the employed and other earning groups to
better plan and provide for their housing needs by
membership in an integrated nationwide savings system
for the said purposes, with contributory support of the
employers in the spirit of social justice and pursuit of
national development

• The Home Development Mutual Fund

- Is a provident savings system for employees in the
private and public sectors supported by matching
contributions of their respective employers, with housing
as primary investment
FUND CONTRIBUTION
- For employees:
 1% - for employees earning not more than P1,500.00 per
month
 2% - for employees earning more than P1,500.00 per month

- For employers:
 2% of the monthly compensation of all covered employees
MONTHLY COMPENSATION

TERM OF MEMBERSHIP

SUSPENSION OF CONTRIBUTION

WITHDRAWAL OF CONTRIBUTION

HOUSING FEATURES
WAIVER OF SUSPENSION
 At the time of the effectivity
 After the effectivity
CRIMINAL OFFENSES AND PENALTIES
- Acts punished:
 Refusal or failure to register its employees
 Collect and remit employee contributions as well as employer
counterparts, or the correct amount due

- Penalties:
 Fine of not less, but not more than twice the amount involved
 Imprisonment of not more than six years
 Both fine and imprisonment, in the discretion of the Court
ANTI-VIOLENCE AGAINST
WOMEN AND THEIR
CHILDREN ACT
R.A. 9262
ACTS PUNISHED
 Physical Violence
 Sexual Violence
 Psychological Violence
 Economic abuse
BATTERED WOMEN SYNDROME
- A scientifically defined pattern of psychological and
behavioral symptoms found in women living in battering
relationships as a result of cumulative abuse

3 STAGES
 Tension building phase
 Acute battering incident
 Tranquil, loving phase
Remedies
 Criminal Action
 Criminal Action with reservation of a separate civil action
 Civil action for damage
 Protection order without claiming damages
PENALTIES
 Punished under the Revised Penal Code

- AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCE
 While the woman or child is pregnant
 Presence of her child

- DEFENSES NOT INCLUDED

 Offender is under the influence of alcohol, any illicit drug, or
any other mind altering substance.
- EXEMPTION OF LIABILITY
 Any person, private individual or police authority or barangay
official who, acting in accordance with law, responds or
intervenes without using violence or restraint greater than
necessary to ensure the safety of the victim.
 The offender is a child or a woman.
WHO CAN FILE?
 Violence against women and their children is a PUBLIC
OFFENSE therefore:

Any person who has personal knowledge of the circumstance

involving commission of the crime.

- WHERE TO FILE?
 RTC designated as Family Courts, if none, RTC where the
offense is committed.
PROTECTION ORDERS
- What is a protection order?

- TWO TYPES OF PROTECTION ORDER?

 Barangay protection order
 Judicial protection order (Temporary or Permanent)
OTHER BENEFITS
 CONFIDENTIALITY OF PROCEEDINGS
 CUSTODY OF THE VICTIM
 PAID LEAVE OF ABSENCE
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