More than three thousand PDV Caribe beneficiaries have collected their booklet for their $100.00 monthly vouchers to assist with their utility bills from the distribution point at the Multi-Purpose Cultural Centre.
Distribution is taking place this week with beneficiaries asked to attend on specific days when the booklets are distributed based on the initials of their last names.
General Manager of PDV Caribe (Antigua and Barbuda) Jellette Ralph, said overall there are over six thousand persons who benefit from the programme and the collection rate has been quite high so she expects that most of the booklets will be collected by the end of the week.
She reported that on Monday and Tuesday, just over one thousand persons collected on each day, but on Wednesday, the figure rose to more than eleven hundred.
“This means that more than half of the booklets have been collected with a rate of over 80 percent of available booklets per day. On Thursday (today), persons with their surnames beginning with the letters; N, O, P, Q, R and S are asked to collect their booklets. For Friday, those with surnames beginning with the letters; T, U, V, W, X, Y and Z will collect theirs,” she stated.
Ralph said her office is also planning to operate the collection centre on Saturday between 9:00 am and 1:00 pm for those who missed collecting on their specific day.
“The benefit that we offer is $100 monthly towards bill payment at APUA. Persons interested in registering for the programme should note that the next registration period comes up in November. The eligibility criteria are the person must be 65 years or over and a Social Security pensioner with a monthly income of less than $1,000.00. Also if there is already someone in the household who is currently benefiting from the programme, then the new person would be deemed ineligible,” she explained.
PVD Caribe has partnered with the firm of Frank B. Armstrong which provided hot beverages to customers from their Mountain Peak brand.
