The recent Php2-billion worth of subsidy given by Philippine Pres. Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo to indigent people, Php500 each for those lifeline power users (consuming below 100 kWh per month), has some semblance to what U.S. Pres. Bill Clinton had done during the California power crisis in 2000.
The U.S. president, then, ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to release US$2.6-million to help pay the electricity bills of low-income families, senior citizens, and people with disabilities. On the other hand, the Philippine president directed the Department of Social Welfare and Development to implement the distribution of the one-time subsidy to each qualified individual, with Land Bank of the Philippines serves as the main releasing facility.
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