Abstract: The article identifies striking the right balance between achieving financial stability and maximizing services to beneficiaries as OWWA’s main challenge. While OFW membership fees comprise the bulk of OWWA’s income, the agency directs over half of its annual budget to operational costs. Meanwhile, conservative fund allotment for welfare services ranging from repatriation assistance to life and disability insurance to loan and scholarship programs limits the agency’s capacity to deliver benefits on a meaningful scale.
Keywords: OFW, OWWA, POEA, Assistance to nationals.
Title: Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) The Modern-day Heroes
Author: Antonio R. Donguines
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3156 (Print), ISSN 2348-3164 (online)
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