Overseas Workers Welfare Administration(OWWA)

August 22, 2023 Dear Mr. Lennon Conde, Greetings! Thank you for your request dated Aug 20, 2023 12:29:12 PM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch for an update of unclaimed DOLE-AKAP financial assistance. Be correctly informed that the DOLE-AKAP is a program of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE). Therefore, all maters related to the program particularly on the availability of the financial assistance must be addressed directly to the nearest DOLE Regional or Provincial Offices. Moreover, The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) is an attached agency of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) effective 31 December 2021 as per RA11641 on the creation of the Department. 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, Ma. Cynthia D. Erum OWWA-FOI Receiving Officer