Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Constitution Hills, Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL No. _________ 
Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE LORDAN G. SUAN 
EXPLANATORY NOTE 
The alarming growth of our population has always been a concern for our 
leaders and policy-makers. It greatly strains our economy as a large percentage of the 
population is still young and unproductive. It creates tremendous pressure on the 
services provided by the state. Although it is dropping for the past two decades, Filipino 
children 15 years and below still comprise 30% of our population. That is equivalent to 
33.4M children. 
The latest survey by the Philippine Statistics Authority seems to provide a 
hopeful outlook. It noted that the Philippine demographic is slowly shifting. The fertility 
rate is declining. According to the Commission on Population and Development, the 
“population pyramid” is now constricting at the bottom. From 12.6% in 2000, the 
percentage of Filipino children below 5 years old decreased to 10.8% in 2015, and in 
2020, it was down to 10.2%. It shows that we are now looking in the direction towards 
an ageing population. The same PSA survey shows that Filipinos 60 years and older 
comprise 8.5% of our population or about 9.2M senior citizens. We see a doubling 
elderly population from 4.5M in the year 2000. The projection is, by 2050 senior 
citizens will make up 16.5% of the Philippine population.  
The population shift entails an increasing demand for elderly care and support 
services. This is exacerbated by the fact that based on the 2021 National Household 
Targeting System for Poverty Reduction or Listahan 2 of the Department of Social 
Welfare and Development, about 1.2M Filipinos were identified as poor senior citizens. 
Of this number, 54% were regarded as household heads.  
The institutionalization of the 5% allocation from the Internal Revenue 
Allotment of the LGUs for programs, projects, activities, and services that will benefit 
our senior citizens is a just legislative action in light of the population shift, the plight of 
our poor senior citizens and the Mandanas-Garcia Supreme Court ruling. 
In view of the foregoing, the immediate passage of this bill is earnestly sought. 
HON. LORDAN G. SUAN 
March 9, 2023
10:50 am
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     Republic of the Philippines 
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
Constitution Hills, Quezon City 
NINETEENTH CONGRESS 
First Regular Session 
HOUSE BILL No. _________ 
Introduced by REPRESENTATIVE LORDAN G. SUAN 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress 
assembled: 
AN ACT INSTITUTIONALIZING A FIVE PERCENT (5%) BUDGETARY 
ALLOCATION FOR PROGRAMS, PROJECTS, ACTIVITIES, AND SERVICES 
FOR SENIOR CITIZENS FROM THE INTERNAL REVENUE ALLOTMENT 
OF THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT UNITS 
SECTION 1. This Act shall be known as the “Local Government Budgetary Allocation for 
Senior Citizens Act.” 
SECTION 2. It is hereby declared the policy of the state to promote a just and dynamic 
social order that ensures the freedom of the people from poverty through policies that 
provide adequate social services, promote full employment, raise the standard of living 
and improve the quality of life. It shall endeavor that essential goods, health and other 
social services shall be available to all. In doing so, it shall give priority to the needs of 
the underprivileged, sick, elderly, disabled, women, and children. Further, it is 
mandated that the state shall take care of the elderly through just programs of social 
security. 
Consistent with the above-mentioned mandates, this Act aims to ensure that the 
necessary and adequate budget from the Internal Revenue Allotment of the Local 
Government Units shall be allotted for the programs, projects, activities, and services of 
the senior citizens.  
SECTION 3. All Local Government Units are hereby mandated to allocate five percent 
(5%) of their Internal Revenue Allotment for the programs, projects, activities and 
services beneficial to the senior citizens. 
SECTION 4. The Department of Interior and Local Government shall submit to Congress 
an annual report on the compliance and accomplishment of the Local Government Units 
under this Act. 
SECTION 5. Within sixty (60) days from the effectivity of this Act, the Department of 
Interior and Local Government in coordination with the Department of Budget and 
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Management and the National Commission for Senior Citizens shall formulate the 
necessary rules and regulations for its effective implementation. 
Section 6. If any provision of this Act is declared invalid or unconstitutional, the 
provisions not hereby affected shall remain in full force and effect. 
Section 7. All laws, decrees, orders, rules and regulations or parts thereof, inconsistent 
with or contrary to the provisions of this Act are repealed, amended, or modified, 
accordingly. 
Section 8. This Act shall take effect fifteen (15) days from the date of its publication in 
the Official Gazette or two (2) newspapers of general circulation. 
 
Approved,