Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA)

March 10, 2022 Dear Mr. Benjan Ardie Catiel, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Mar 08, 2022 11:51:40 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch for an update of your DOLE-AKAP Application. The OWWA Verification has no record of your OEC and no record of OWWA Membership. You applied for DOLE-AKAP on February 27, 2021. You were qualified to the DOLE-AKAP and application is with DOLE Region VII for the release of Financial Benefit. Be reminded that the role of OWWA Region 7 is to check the correctness and completeness of your online application. It is the Department of Labor and Employment that is mandated to release the DOLE-AKAP financial assistance. Therefore, direct your follow-up with the DOLE hotline 1348. Try also the DOLE-FOI and if there is no respond within 15 days you may inform the Citizen's Complaint at the hotline 8888. 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 to Administrator Hans Leo J. Cacdac 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