THE National Commission of Senior Citizens (NCSC) has appealed to senior citizens for calm and vigilance over a "misinformation drive" over issues surrounding them.

In a statement on Tuesday and later updated on Wednesday on the agency's website, NCSC Chief Franklin Quijano had issued an advisory citing the issues are "from the distribution of social pensions to indigent seniors to the transfer of functions and duties of senior citizen-related benefits and programs from the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) to the NCSC."

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