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The Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA; ) is an attached agency of the
Department of Migrant Workers The Department of Migrant Workers (DMW; ) is the Executive Departments of the Philippines, executive department of the Politics of the Philippines, Philippine government responsible for the protection of the rights and promotion of the welfare ...
of the Philippines. It protects the interests of
Overseas Filipino Worker Overseas Filipino Worker (OFW) is a term often used to refer to Filipino migrant workers, people with Filipino citizenship who reside in another country for a limited period of employment. The number of these workers was roughly 1.77 million ...
s and their families, providing
social security Welfare spending is a type of government support intended to ensure that members of a society can meet basic human needs such as food and shelter. Social security may either be synonymous with welfare, or refer specifically to social insurance ...
, cultural services and help with employment,
remittance A remittance is a non-commercial transfer of money by a foreign worker, a member of a diaspora community, or a citizen with familial ties abroad, for household income in their home country or homeland. Money sent home by migrants competes ...
s and legal matters. It is funded by an obligatory annual contribution from overseas workers and their employers. Its head office is at F.B. Harrison Street corner 7th Street in
Pasay Pasay, officially the City of Pasay (; ), is a Cities of the Philippines#Legal classification, highly urbanized city in the Metro Manila, National Capital Region of the Philippines. According to the 2020 Philippine census, 2020 census, it has a ...
, near
Gil Puyat Avenue Senator Gil J. Puyat Avenue, also known simply as Gil Puyat Avenue and by its former official name Buendia Avenue, is a major arterial thoroughfare which runs east–west through Makati and Pasay in western Metro Manila, Philippines. It is one ...
, Philippines. The agency was founded as the Welfare and Training Fund for Overseas Workers through Letter of Instruction No. 537, signed by President Ferdinand Marcos on May 1, 1977. It was renamed into the OWWA through Executive Order No. 126, signed by President
Corazon Aquino María Corazón "Cory" Sumulong Cojuangco-Aquino (; January 25, 1933 – August 1, 2009) was a Filipino politician who served as the 11th president of the Philippines and the first woman president in the country, from Presidency of Corazon ...
on January 30, 1987. Republic Act No. 10801 signed by President
Benigno Aquino III Benigno Simeon Aquino III (; born Benigno Simeon Cojuangco Aquino III; February 8, 1960 – June 24, 2021), also known as Noynoy Aquino and colloquially as PNoy, was a Filipino politician who served as the 15th president of the Philippines ...
on May 10, 2016, further defined the powers of the agency.


See also

* Brain drain in the Philippines *
Commission on Filipinos Overseas The Commission on Filipinos Overseas (CFO; ) is an agency of the government of the Philippines under the Office of the President of the Philippines. CFO was established on June 16, 1980, through the enactment of Batas Pambansa Blg. 79. The a ...
* Philippine Labor Migration Policy *
Philippine Overseas Employment Administration The Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA; ) was an agency of the government of the Philippines responsible for opening the benefits of the overseas employment program of the Philippines. It is the main government agency assigned ...


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Republic Act No. 8042Republic Act No. 10801
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