Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA)

June 17, 2022 Dear Ms. Rufina Dela Cruz, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jun 15, 2022 09:21:47 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch to expedite the release of DOLE-AKAP financial assistance. Based on the OWWA-FOI Data Base this is not the first time you inquired about your DOLE-AKAP. The latest of which was in June 5, 2022 and it is ATTY. EDELYN D. CLAUSTRO who responded to all your inquiries. Take note that Mrs. Cynthia D. Erum is the OWWA Receiving Officer who acknowledged receiving your inquiries which she forwards for verification and authentication, and sent to the office of the OWWA Decision Maker for the response. BASAHIN PO NINYO MAIGI Ms. DELA CRUZ ang aming payo noon pa sa mga inyong katanungan. PLEASE BE KNOWLEDGEABLE that the DOLE-AKAP ay programa ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Uulitin po namin ang June 05 response: "Ms. Dela Cruz please be CORRECTLY INFORMED that DOLE-AKAP is a financial assistance under the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and not with OWWA. Therefore, DO YOUR FOLLOW-UPS WITH DOLE REGIONAL OFFICE III. In using the e-FOI, go to the DOLE website at: www.dole.gov.ph and type the Department of Labor and Employment. Follow the instructions so that your request can be duly acted upon. Moreover, this is not the first time you inquired about the same concern on DOLE-AKAP. It is to your best interest that OWWA suggests that you go directly to the DOLE Regional Office at San Fernando, Pampanga since we do not have records of your deployment as an OFW." Be further informed that your DOLE-AKAP application is with DOLE Region III and not with OWWA. Sa DOLE III po kayo mag tanong tungkul sa usapin DOLE-AKAP. 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

June 17, 2022 Dear Ms. Rufina Dela Cruz, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jun 15, 2022 09:21:47 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch to expedite the release of DOLE-AKAP financial assistance. Based on the OWWA-FOI Data Base this is not the first time you inquired about your DOLE-AKAP. The latest of which was in June 5, 2022 and it is ATTY. EDELYN D. CLAUSTRO who responded to all your inquiries. Take note that Mrs. Cynthia D. Erum is the OWWA Receiving Officer who acknowledged receiving your inquiries which she forwards for verification and authentication, and sent to the office of the OWWA Decision Maker for the response. BASAHIN PO NINYO MAIGI Ms. DELA CRUZ ang aming payo noon pa sa mga inyong katanungan. PLEASE BE KNOWLEDGEABLE that the DOLE-AKAP ay programa ng Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Uulitin po namin ang June 05 response: "Ms. Dela Cruz please be CORRECTLY INFORMED that DOLE-AKAP is a financial assistance under the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and not with OWWA. Therefore, DO YOUR FOLLOW-UPS WITH DOLE REGIONAL OFFICE III. In using the e-FOI, go to the DOLE website at: www.dole.gov.ph and type the Department of Labor and Employment. Follow the instructions so that your request can be duly acted upon. Moreover, this is not the first time you inquired about the same concern on DOLE-AKAP. It is to your best interest that OWWA suggests that you go directly to the DOLE Regional Office at San Fernando, Pampanga since we do not have records of your deployment as an OFW." Be further informed that your DOLE-AKAP application is with DOLE Region III and not with OWWA. Sa DOLE III po kayo mag tanong tungkul sa usapin DOLE-AKAP. 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