Worry Over Children Using Parents’ Social Welfare Benefits

A number of elderly persons in the Western Division have raised their concern with a counseling organisation in Lautoka against their children using part of their social wel­fare benefits from Government.

It is understood that those who fall under Government’s Social Pension Scheme receive about $100 a month, similar to those who are part of the Dis­ability Allowance Scheme.

The executive director and founder of the counseling organisation, Mend­ing Minds Foundation, Prem Singh re­vealed this to the Fiji Sun.

She said the elderly or senior citizens under the scheme were one of the foun­dation’s top concerns.

She said senior citizens’ mental health could be affected if they were not looked after properly.

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