Older Persons Situation During the COVID-19 Pandemic Amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens (SPISC) program of the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DWSD) continued. This program grants monthly stipend amounting to five hundred pesos (Php500.00) to augment the daily subsistence and other medical needs of indigent senior citizens. In the Cordillera, according to the DSWD Regional Office, for January to June 2020, a total of 83, 226 older persons benefitted in the social pension. The DSWD Regional Office has also granted 100,000 pesos to 26 centenarians in the Cordillera for the first semester of 2020. On January to June 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, the DSWD Crisis Intervention Unit granted financial assistance to 924 older persons in the Cordillera. G. Persons Deprived of Liberty SITUATION OF PDLs AND DETENTION FACILITIES: Consistent with its mandate to conduct jail visitation in all detention facilities, CHR - CAR has visited the following facilities pursuant to its jail visitation plan. Howeve r, due to the health concerns brought about by COVID -19, jail visitation activities were suspended pursuant to a memorandum dated March 11, 2020 issued by CHR Visitorial Divisio n-Prevention Cluster thus, only 23% of the jail visitation plan was implemented . No. PROVINCE 1 Abra NAME OF DETENTION FACILITY Bangued DATE OF VISIT OBSERVATIONS June 24, 2020 1 PDL - No Complaint received. Facility is compliant with UN Rules 38 P a g e 2 Abra Lacub MPS 3 Benguet Bokod MPS 4 Benguet Kabayan MPS 5 Benguet Bakun MPS 6 Benguet Kapangan MPS June 25,2020 Feb. 24-26, 2020 No custodial facility. MPS is temporarily leasing a private property as its office. No PDLs during the visit. CHR CAR REGIONAL HR SITUATION REPORT – JANUARY to JUNE 2020