DTI tells retailers: comply with Expanded Senior Citizens Act

By June 30, 2014Business, News

DAGUPAN CITY–The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) reminded business establishments in Pangasinan to comply with the law granting benefits and privileges to senior citizens, particularly entitlement to a five percent discount on basic food items.

“Every Filipino senior citizen with age of 60 years old and above shall enjoy five percent special discounts on their purchases not exceeding P1, 300 per week,” said DTI Provincial Director Peter Mangabat said, citing Republic Act 9994 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010.

“The unused amount per week cannot be carried over to the following week’s purchase thus the amount allowable per week should be totally used up,” he added.

Basic necessities include rice, corn, bread, fresh, dried and canned fish and other marine products, fresh pork, beef and poultry, meat, fresh eggs, fresh and processed milk, fresh vegetables, root crops, coffee, sugar, cooking oil, salt, laundry soap, detergents, and drugs classified as essential by the Department of Health (DOH) and other commodities as maybe classified by the DTI and the Department of Agriculture (DA).

Prime commodities cover fresh fruit, flour, dried, processed and canned pork, beef and poultry, meat, dairy products not falling under basic necessities; noodles, onions, garlic, and all drugs not classified as essential drugs by the DOH and other commodities that may be classified by the DTI and the DA according to Republic Act 7581 or The Price Act.

However, these discounts can only be availed of in supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience and mini-convenience stores. excluding stalls in food courts, food carts, food vendors and sari-sari stores, wet markets, “talipapa” and cooperatives, Mangabat said. (PIA-1, Pangasinan)

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