{"id":251221,"date":"2020-04-04T06:06:58","date_gmt":"2020-04-04T10:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=251221"},"modified":"2025-01-10T14:21:58","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:21:58","slug":"voters-id-not-needed-to-get-govt-aid-comelec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/04\/04\/voters-id-not-needed-to-get-govt-aid-comelec\/","title":{"rendered":"Voter\u2019s ID not needed to get gov&#8217;t aid: Comelec"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_211929\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-211929\" style=\"width: 2185px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-211929\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2185\" height=\"1750\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec.jpg 2185w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-768x615.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-1024x820.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/comelec-20x16.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2185px) 100vw, 2185px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-211929\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: The Commission on Elections is all set for the May 13 elections, its spokesperson, Director James Jimenez (left), says during the Broadcasters\u2019 Forum held at Roland\u2019s Farm to Table Restaurant along Visayas Ave., Quezon City on Wednesday (April 24, 2019).<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy vilitra online <a href=\"https:\/\/rxbio.com\/css\/css\/vilitra.html\">https:\/\/rxbio.com\/css\/css\/vilitra.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> (PNA photo by Ben Briones)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday reiterated the Department of the Interior Government&#8217;s (DILG) statement that a voter\u2019s identification card (ID) is not a requirement for the people to receive aid from the government during the enhanced community quarantine.<\/p>\n<p>Comelec spokesperson James Jimenez said the DILG has made the announcement last month that the public particularly indigents are not required to show a voter\u2019s ID for them to get the emergency subsidy ranging from PHP5,000 to PHp8,000.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe voter\u2019s identification card is not required in determining who shall receive the mandated subsidy during the state of national emergency arising from the Covid-19 situation, the Department of the Interior Government (DILG) announced on March 28, 2020,\u201d he said in a statement.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy abilify online <a href=\"https:\/\/rxbio.com\/css\/css\/abilify.html\">https:\/\/rxbio.com\/css\/css\/abilify.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cDILG Undersecretary Jonathan Malaya clarified in an interview that being a registered voter is not a factor in determining who gets into the list of beneficiaries of the government social amelioration program,\u201d Jimenez added.<\/p>\n<p>Barangay officials are reminded not to require voter\u2019s IDs from their constituents in distributing the monthly allowance, which may be in cash or in kind.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy bactroban online <a href=\"https:\/\/rxbio.com\/css\/css\/bactroban.html\">https:\/\/rxbio.com\/css\/css\/bactroban.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a separate statement, Usec. Malaya said that residents need not show their voter\u2019s IDs in order to get food packs from their local government units,\u201d Jimenez said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe food packs are to be distributed on a per household basis, and not a per person basis,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Under Section 4(c) of Republic act No. 11469 or the Bayanihan to Heal as One Act, identified beneficiaries coming from low-income Filipino households shall receive an emergency subsidy of PHP5,000 to PHP8,000 a month for two months.<\/p>\n<p>The island of Luzon is under ECQ which started last March 17 and will run until April 12, to contain the spread of the deadly virus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Commission on Elections (Comelec) on Saturday reiterated the Department of the Interior Government&#8217;s (DILG) statement that a voter\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":211929,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-251221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251221"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282370,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251221\/revisions\/282370"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}