OWWA employs new strategies for all OFWs to have a good retirement plan

The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) has started infusing new strategies that would provide overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) an exit or retirement plan even before they are deployed for work abroad.

The exit plan for OFWs is one of the initiatives of Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) Sec, Susan “Toots” Ople wherein Filipino workers are being encouraged to come up with wise financial spending and investment in order to break the cycle of migrant worker mentality in every Filipino family.

In an exclusive interview with the Manila Bulletin on Thursday, Aug. 24, Director Dindi Tan of the OWWA’s National Reintegration Center for OFWs (NRCO), said, they are now introducing new policies and strategies that do not only benefit the OFWs but also their families.

“The NRCO is now tasked to ensure that reintegration interventions are introduced even before the deployment of migrant workers overseas, during deployment abroad, up to eventual return to the country. ‘We’, we serve the Migrant Workers to the fullest,” said Tan.

After the 5th Cabinet meeting at Malacañan Palace in Manila on Tuesday, Aug. 23, Ople directed the NRCO to assess the needs of overseas workers and provide necessary assistance to repatriate migrant Filipino workers.

“We will heed the call of DMW Sec. Toots (Ople) must continue identifying the evolving needs of our migrant workers in order to correspondingly employ the proper reintegration and intervention that is both sustainable and empowering,” Tan stressed.

Tan elaborated directions on top of the idea to rejuvenate the existing programs concerning the OFWs which are mandated under the Republic Act (RA) 11641 that was signed in to law by former President Rodrigo Roa Duterte.

“This also implies that we need to include the families of our migrant workers into the mainframe of our reintegration agenda to prepare them on the likely implications of such migration,” Tan stressed.

R.A. 11641 mandates the creation of the Transition Committee of the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW) to institutionalize the full-cycle reintegration programs for the Filipino migrant workers.

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