President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. is pushing for a faster and simpler system for distributing government aid to senior citizens, including removing long speeches and public presentations during payouts.
In his vlog, the President read a complaint from a netizen about seniors being required to wait for politicians to arrive and deliver speeches before aid is released.
Marcos Jr. stressed that programs funded by the national government should not be used for political promotion, adding that such practices are already prohibited under guidelines of the Department of the Interior and Local Government and provisions in the General Appropriations Act.
He said the government is also studying ways to digitize aid distribution, possibly through platforms like GCash, to speed up the process.
Some LGUs, such as Makati, have already begun testing similar systems.IMT
