Overview
- The Women and Family Committee approved the pre-bill for PL 12602/2025-CR to grant an orphan pension to children of public-transport workers killed by criminal violence while on duty.
- Eligibility covers minors under 18, extending to 24 for those in higher or technical education.
- Access changes scrap the poverty-certification requirement, allow receipt alongside contributory survivor benefits, and bar duplication with other noncontributory aid from the same crime.
- A provisional mechanism lets Inabif activate payments immediately with a PNP investigation certificate or a Public Prosecutor’s notice of proceedings, with cancellation if no crime is later established.
- In the same session, the committee advanced tougher Penal Code provisions on exposure/abandonment, faster anticipatory evidence for child victims using Gesell interviews with psychologists, and a broader legal definition of internal displacement; all measures now move to the full Congress for debate.