The Land Transportation Franchising Regulatory Board (LTFRB) on Tuesday announced that the Land-Based Service Contracting Program (LBSP), which grants fare discounts to commuters, will end on May 22.
According to the LTFRB, the LBSP, which offers a 20 percent fare discount to regular passengers and a total 40 percent discount to students, senior citizens and persons with disabilities is set to end at 11:59 p.m. on Friday.
With the end of the program, LTFRB chair Vigor Mendoza II said he already advised all the agency’s personnel to remove and discontinue all activities related to the program.
These include the conduct of QR code and manual scanning; provision of the 20 percent discount being implemented under the program; and display, installation, or hanging of official LBSCP tarpaulins, signages and other promotional or identification materials associated with the program.
“You are directed to inform all onboarded beneficiaries under the LBSCP to cease and discontinue all activities related to the implementation of the program upon the expiration of the aforementioned date and time,” a memorandum issued by Mendoza read.
Meanwhile, the LTFRB also announced that the P10 per liter discount for the transport sector will continue as a total of 141,724 units of passenger jeepneys and UV Express were already uploaded to the fuel discount subsidy program, which means that these units can already avail of the discount for diesel.