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MUNTINLUPA SCHOLARS TO GET ALLOWANCE

/ 24 October 2020

STUDENTS in Muntinlupa City will continue to get their stipends under the city’s scholarship program, Mayor Jaime Fresnedi said.

Muntinlupa Scholarship Program acting chief Alvin Veron said the distribution of allowances will be adjusted and will start with senior high school students.

Muntinlupa has over 71,000 scholars from elementary to college. It also has scholars taking up technical-vocational courses and in graduate, law, and medicine schools.

Elementary and alternative learning system students receive up to P4,000. Junior high school students receive up to P5,000 while senior high school scholars receive P6,000 per year.

Meanwhile, students in state universities and colleges including beneficiaries of the Continuing Assistance for Reintegrating Students Program receive up to P10,000 per semester.

Students under different scholarship categories will also receive cash assistance.