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Reelectionist Senator Sonny Angara said overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families should take advantage of the wide range of services and benefits under a law that institutionalized and strengthened the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA). Angara said that under Republic Act 10801 or the OWWA Act of 2016, the benefits and services, among them […]
Senator Koko Pimentel III on Sunday repeated his call for the immediate creation of a national level Department of Overseas Filipino Workers (DOFW). Pimentel said government cannot ignore the fact that almost one in every 11 Filipinos, is working overseas, and that their welfare should be fully ensured and protected at all times. “We’re talking […]
The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) paid the late Senate President Edgardo Angara a special tribute in recognition of his contribution to uplift the lives of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and their families. The OWWA Board, led by its chairman Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello III and vice chairman OWWA Administrator Hans Leo Cacdac, recently handed […]