DEPUTY House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo has filed a bill seeking to cut the waiting time for a solo parent to become entitled to legal benefits under the Solo Parents Welfare Act of 2000, to six months from one year.
House Bill 1520 seeks to amend the Solo Parents Welfare Act, which grants benefits such as livelihood, housing, medical and educational support to a parent who bears the sole and lone parenting duty after the other spouse has abandoned the family or is serving sentence for a criminal conviction.
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