Senior citizens receive social pension in Shwepyitha Twsp.

Shwepyitha, 30 September

 

Officials from the Township Department of Social Welfare under Ministry of Social Welfare, Relief and Resettlement disbursed social pension to senior citizens aged 85 and above in Shwepyitha Township, Yangon Region on a door to door basis on 29 September.

 

Under this cash aid program, 14 elderly people who are eligible to receive social pension in the Township received Ks. 30000 each for three months. 

 

There are 822 senior citizens aged 85 and above in 23 wards and four villages in Shwepyitha Township. Officials from the Township Department of Social Welfare continue to make a domiciliary visit to the homes of senior citizens in the remaining wards and villages in the Township and will dispense social pension to them.—Aye Moe(IPRD)
Translated by JT