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