Tag: Military Disability Pension

Sponsorship Speech: Bicam Report on Rationalizing the Disability Pension of Veterans (SBN-1480 / HBN-7939)

SPONSORSHIP SPEECH Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada Bicameral Conference Committee Report on the disagreeing provisions of Senate Bill No. 1480 and House Bill No. 7939 Rationalizing the Disability Pension of Veterans Mr. President, distinguished colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, as your Chairperson of the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification and Reconciliation, I have…
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WATCH | Presscon ukol sa SBN-2074 o refund sa internet disruptions at veterans’ disability pension hike

Panayam ng media kay Senador Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada ukol sa isinusulong na refund sa mga palyadong internet connections at maging ang panukalang pagtaas ng disability pension ng mga beterano. PRESS RELEASE SENATE BILL NO. 2074

Jinggoy Estrada: Disability pension ng mga beterano, dapat itaas

(ABS-CBN) Nasa plenaryo na ng Senado ang panukalang batas na magrerepaso sa disability pension ng mga beteranong may kapansanan. Sa kanyang sponsorship speech, sinabi ni Senator Jinggoy Estrada na hindi makatarungan ang buwanang pension na P1,000- P1,700. Sabi ni Estrada, kung isasaalang-alang ang mataas na halaga ng pamumuhay ngayon at lagay ng kanilang kalusugan, kakarampot…
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Jinggoy wants pension of disabled war veterans raised to P4.5K

(MALAYA) SEN. Jose “Jinggoy” Estrada yesterday urged his colleagues to support the upgrading of the monthly pension of disabled war veterans that has been in effect for the past 28 years. In sponsoring Senate Bill No. 1480 under Committee Report No. 11 or an Act Rationalizing the Disability Pension of Veterans, which seeks to amend…
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Jinggoy pinatataasan ang disability pension ng mga war veteran

(ABANTE) Hinimok Senador Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada ang kanyang mga kasamahan sa Senado na repasuhin ang pensyon ng mga beteranong may kapansanan na tatlong dekada nang hindi nababago. Sabi ni Estrada, isang matinding kawalan ng hustisya para sa mga benepisyaryo ang buwanang pension na ang kasalukuyang halaga ay naglalaro lamang sa P287. Ang P1,000 hanggang P1,700…
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‘Pasasalamat sa mga beterano’: Jinggoy bats for hike in monthly pension of WWII veterans

(POLITIKO) Sen. Jinggoy Estrada on Tuesday called on the government to increase the monthly pension of World War II veterans, who have been receiving only P1,000 to P1,700 a month for defending the country from the Japanese invaders in the 1940s. Estrada said the benefit that the living military veterans and their families had been…
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Senators push for increase in disability pension of disabled veterans

(MANILA BULLETIN) Senators on Tuesday, November 22 called for an increase in the disability pension of disabled veterans which has remained stagnant for almost three decades already. Sen. Jinggoy Estrada said there is an urgent need to upgrade the 28-year old disability pension of disabled veterans, noting that the P1,000 to P1,700 monthly pension for…
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Jinggoy calls on colleagues to pass a bill increasing veterans’ disability pension

Jinggoy calls on colleagues to pass a bill increasing veterans’ disability pension: Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada, on Tuesday, November 22, 2022, sponsors on the floor a measure proposing a 350% to 488% increase in the disability pension of disabled veterans. Estrada, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification, and Reconciliation, said…
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Sponsorship Speech on Senate Bill No. 1480 under Committee Report No. 11 entitled, “Rationalizing the Disability Pension of Veterans”

SPONSORSHIP SPEECH  Senator Jinggoy Ejercito Estrada  Chairperson, Senate Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification and Reconciliation  Senate Bill No. 1480 under Committee Report 11 Rationalizing the Disability Pension of Veterans  Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished colleagues of this august body, as your Chairperson of the Committee on National Defense and Security, Peace, Unification and Reconciliation, it is…
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Jinggoy pushes 350% to 488% pension hike for military vets

Senator Jinggoy Estrada, taking up the cudgels for aging military veterans bearing the rising costs of medical and other pressing needs, prodded Congress on Monday to frontload passage of an awaited remedial law “proposing to increase by 350 percent to 488 percent their disability pension.” In pressing for an upward adjustment in their pension fund,…
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