Full Title
AN ACT PROVIDING A LIFE PENSION FOR WIDOWS OF EX-PRESIDENTS OF THE PHILIPPINES.
Congress
1st Congress of the Republic
House Bill No.
H. No. 31
Legislative History
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Date of Approval
June 1, 1948

Other Details

Issuance Category
Legislative Issuance
Legislative Issuance Type
Republic Act
Bill Note
House Bill Only
Subjects
PENSIONS
Widows pensions
Survivors’ benefits
Mother’s pension
PHILIPPINES -- PRESIDENTS
Major Topic
Women's rights

Official Gazette

Official Gazette Source
Official Gazette vol. 44 no. 7 page 2174 (7/00/1948)

Full Text of Issuance

H. No. 31 / 44 OG No. 7, 2174 (July, 1948)

[ REPUBLIC ACT NO. 208, June 01, 1948 ]

AN ACT PROVIDING A LIFE PENSION FOR WIDOWS OF EX-PRESIDENTS OF THE PHILIPPINES

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Philippines in Congress assembled:SECTION 1. The widow of an ex-President of the Philippines, or of a President who dies in office shall be entitled to a life pension of twelve thousand pesos per year payable to her monthly by the Treasury of the Philippines.SEC. 2. This Act shall take effect on April fifteen, nineteen hundred and forty-eight.Approved, June 1, 1948.

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