THE Quezon City government has distributed free movie passes to benefit over 500,000 registered senior citizens.
Mayor Herbert Bautista said a pass holder can watch a total of 210 movies in 2018.
Senior citizens can use their movie passes every Monday and Tuesday from the first screening until 5 p.m. only, with a maximum of two movies per day, in all National Cinema Association of the Philippines theaters in Quezon City such as at TriNoma, Eastwood, Gateway and Ali Mall.
Seniors who will watch movies on screening times outside the designated schedules can avail of an additional 10 percent discount on top of the 20-percent cinema admission discount for them under Republic Act 9257 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2003.
The QC Office of the Senior Citizens Affairs said movie passes are not valid during official special holidays and the first week screening of blockbuster movies declared by NCAP members.
Meanwhile, the city council gave Bautista the green light to extend financial aid to over 2,000 informal settler families affected by the construction of a housing project in Kaingin Bukid in Barangay Apolonio Samson.
District 6 Councilor Donato Matias introduced Resolution 7300 of 2017, allocating P13.5 million for distribution to 2,706 affected informal settler families with each of them to get P5,000.
The money will be sourced from the P100-million fund transferred by the Department of the Interior and Local Government for the construction of the housing component of the proposed housing project in Kaingin Bukid.
Several of the affected families shall be relocated to the resettlement sites of the National Housing Authority.