{"id":234240,"date":"2019-10-11T23:18:30","date_gmt":"2019-10-12T03:18:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=234240"},"modified":"2019-10-11T23:18:30","modified_gmt":"2019-10-12T03:18:30","slug":"owwa-disburses-p26-m-in-rebates-for-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/10\/11\/owwa-disburses-p26-m-in-rebates-for-members\/","title":{"rendered":"OWWA disburses P26-M in rebates for members"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Update po re OWWA Rebate Program as of today, 9 October 2019: 10,512 beneficiaries na po tayo, P26 million released na rin po  \ud83d\ude42 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I3ZICsQjw7\">pic.twitter.com\/I3ZICsQjw7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; hans leo j. cacdac (@HansLeoCacdac) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HansLeoCacdac\/status\/1181950629343719424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 9, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) has disbursed over PHP26 million to members under its ongoing rebate program.<\/p>\n<p>In a Twitter post on Friday, OWWA Administrator Hans Cacdac said a total of Php26,071,683 have benefitted 10,512 members.<\/p>\n<p>The program was launched last month in compliance with Republic Act 10801, or the OWWA Act, which states a rebate should be given to overseas Filipino workers (OFW).<\/p>\n<p>The beneficiaries must be a member of OWWA for at least 10 years and have not availed themselves of any benefit from the agency.<\/p>\n<p>The amount of the rebate range from PHP941.25 up to PHP13,177.50 depending on the Filipino worker\u2019s number of contributions.<\/p>\n<p>OWWA records show a total of 556,000 of its members, who have made at least five or more contributions as of December 31, 2017, will qualify in the initial implementation of the program.<\/p>\n<p>The agency has allocated PHP1 billion for the rebates.<\/p>\n<p>A total of USD5 is being collected by the OWWA for every contract for both land-based and sea-based Filipino migrant workers.<\/p>\n<p>Qualified members, who would like to avail of the rebate program may visit the OWWA\u2019s official web site at owwa.gov.ph or call OWWA Hotline 1348.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update po re OWWA Rebate Program as of today, 9 October 2019: 10,512 beneficiaries na po tayo, P26 million released &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":234241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-234240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","mauthors-ferdinand-patinio","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234242,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234240\/revisions\/234242"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}