Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA)

August 16, 2022 Dear Ms. Cherie May Magallanes, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Aug 14, 2022 09:49:46 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch for a follow up of OFW COVID 19 cash assistance. Ms. Magallanes the cash assistance given to active OFWs affected by COVID - 19 is the DOLE-AKAP (if repatriated or on vacation and cannot return to the employer) or Alagang Kabayan (if OFW is at the worksite and infected by the virus). Assuming that it is the status of DOLE-AKAP you want to know, then you must contact the DOLE Regional Office VI or the DOLE Provincial Office for updates. Be CORRECTLY INFORMED that the DOLE-AKAP is a program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) and not OWWA. Hence, matters concerning the program must be addressed appropriately to DOLE. 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