Two Facebook pages are circulating a video claiming that senior citizens nationwide are entitled to receive P8,000 monthly cash aid and food allowance simply by registering in the links provided. This is fake.
First published by an FB page on May 30, the 16-second reel displays a clip of a woman overlaid in a graphic card, saying:
“Lahat ng senior citizens ay makakatanggap ng eight thousand kada buwan at food allowance, sa buong bansa po ito. Magregister po kayo sa post namin para makasama sa listahan. I-send niyo po sa amin ang inyong mga Senior ID. Paki-share po ang balitang ito
(All senior citizens will receive P8,000 every month and food allowance, this is nationwide. Register on our post to be included in the list. Send us your senior ID. Please share this news).”
A separate page reposted the video twice on May 31, carrying a similar caption.
There is no government program providing this subsidy. The only existing financial assistance to senior citizens is limited to indigents under the Social Pension for Indigent Senior Citizens program, which provides P1,000 monthly to qualified beneficiaries. The elderly who reach milestone ages are also given cash gifts under the Expanded Centenarians Act of 2024.
The clip was generated using artificial intelligence. It bears the watermark of Veo, Google’s text-to-video generative AI tool, on the lower right corner. VERA Files ran the video through the AI detection tool Hive Moderation, which indicated a 99.9% probability that the clip is AI-made.
The three registration links in the posts merely redirect to product pages of office and school supplies and portable solar generators listed in e-commerce platforms. Moreover, asking for senior citizen IDs is suspicious as this could risk abuse of personal information.
The bogus clip surfaced after the first batch of signatures of the “Labing-Dalawang Milyong Lagda para sa Matatanda” campaign was turned over to the House of Representatives on May 25. The campaign aims to fast-track the passage of the Universal Social Pension Bill which will guarantee cash assistance to senior citizens regardless of economic status.
Posted by FB pages Ph News Alert (May 5, 2026) and Malasakit Pilipinas Updates (April 7, 2026) the clips collectively garnered 154,300 views; 1,522 reactions; and 917 comments; and 742 shares.
