Repatriated OFWs to receive P150k aid
THE government will give a cash aid of P150,000 to each Filipino who will be returning home from Lebanon, as fighting between Hezbollah and Israeli forces continues to intensify in the Middle Eastern country.
Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac said the assistance was ordered by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., who convened the Department of Migrant Workers (DMW), Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE), Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA), and Technical Education and Skills Development Authority (Tesda) «to come together and provide the utmost post-repatriation assistance or post-arrival assistance.»
Cacdac said on Monday that P75,000 would come from the DMW and P75,000 from OWWA.
Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac. PHOTO by MARK JOSEPH BARNEDOApart from the cash aid, the repatriates, mostly overseas Filipino workers (OFWs), will also undergo psychosocial therapy and provide livelihood assistance.
Cacdac appealed to the Filipinos in Lebanon to heed the government's call to take advantage of the repatriation program since «the situation may worsen.»
