A P100,000 cash, 50-percent discount on goods and services, exemption from value-added tax (VAT) and a plaque of recognition—these are the ones which would be at stake for Filipinos who would live for a hundred years or beyond.

This developed after the House Committee on Population and Family Relations unanimously approved House Bill 834, or An Act Honoring and Granting Additional Benefits and Privileges to Filipino Centenarians and Declaring the 25th of September as National Respect for Centenarians Day authored by House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman of Albay.

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