Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA)

May 31, 2022 Dear Ms Elysa Marie Palaganas, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated May 31, 2022 02:44:00 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch for financial assistance for OFWs infected by CPOVID-19 at the jobsite. OFW Verification show that your employment contract expired on September 2021 and currently no record of an employment renewal. Hence, your OEC is no longer valid at the time you were infected by COVID-19. In your case, the correct agency to assist your hospital/medical and repatriation needs is the Philippine Embassy at Abu Dhabi. Call any of their ATN Nos: (+971) 54 529 4464; 50 896 3089; 50 858 4968; 50-443-8003. Be further informed that it is your employer who is responsible in shouldering your treatment and provide subsidy while you are recuperating from COVID. You have to be truthful is your statement to our Officers in the Embassy on your employment and visa status. This way, the Embassy can serve you appropriately and give the right assistance for distressed Filipinos. If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing the OWWA- FOI Decision Makers at email: [email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response and should be made within FIFTEEN (15) calendar days from the date you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within THIRTY (30) calendar days from the date we received your review request. However, if you are still not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011). Thank you. Respectfully, ATTY. EDELYN D. CLAUSTRO Director IV- Administrative and Financial Management Office OWWA-FOI Decision Maker