Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA)

January 16, 2023 Dear Ms. Princess aznah Salic, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Jan 15, 2023 02:16:25 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch for a follow up on the status of application to the DOLE-AKAP financial assistance. Ms. Salic be properly informed that the DOLE-AKAP is a financial assistance given to OFWs whose employment status were affected by the worldwide COVID 19 Pandemic. This is a program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) with funds allocated by the Philippine government. Kindly review the program details of DOLE-AKAP as to the qualification requirements at the DOLE website: www.dole.gov.ph. Based on the joint POEA and OWWA OFW data base, your employment expired on November 2021. Therefore, your return to the Philippines is due to the completion of contract and not related to COVID-19. Keep to yourself your opinion that the "Philippine Government as being unfair to you". The FOI is not the avenue for these individual sentiments. Rather, FOI gives access to correct and accurate information about the mandate/functions/ programs/benefits about the government agencies under the executive branch. It is the role of the STATE to prioritize the distribution of limited resources while ensuring the accountability of funds and proper program implementation. 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