SENIOR citizens are no longer required to make a personal appearance to validate and get their pensions starting next month, Malacañang said on Friday.

Palace spokesman Harry Roque Jr. said the Inter-Agency Task Force for the Management of Emerging Infectious Diseases (IATF-EID) “mandated pension-issuing agencies and their servicing banks and other financial institutions to adopt alternative modes of validation for senior citizen pensioners.”

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