MANILA, Philippines — President Rodrigo Duterte has approved the extension of the “no-disconnection policy” for “lifeliners” or low-income households that are unable to pay their electricity bills amid the Covid-19 pandemic, Cabinet Secretary Karlo Nograles said Thursday.
“In the Cabinet meeting yesterday, the Department of Energy recommended to the President that this no-disconnection policy for lifeliners be continued. Ipagpatuloy po,” Nograles said in an online briefing.
“And the President readily agreed given that electricity is a basic necessity our countrymen cannot live without,” he added.
Nograles said lifeliners are households who consume 100 kilowatts per hour and be…
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