The OWWA's 2024 budget sponsor in the House says the 8% utilization rate of the P9.89-billion fund is low because its allowed use is limited to pandemic-related repatriations
for its multibillion-peso emergency repatriation fund for 2023, the Overseas Workers Welfare Administration is seeking to expand the allowed purposes for ERF spending to address more types of issues overseas Filipino workers face in returning to the Philippines.
During the Friday, September 22, plenary hearing of the 2024 budget for the Department of Migrant Workers , of which the OWWA is an attached agency, budget sponsor Quezon 2nd District Representative David Suarez reported that the OWWA’s P9.89-billion ERF for 2023 only had a utilization rate of 8%. He explained that the ERF’s utilization rate was low since the fund is earmarked for repatriation services in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic, covering costs like flights back to the Philippines, hotel accommodations, and testing services.‘Yung pinakabuod ng request ng OWWA, na sana magkaroon ng kaunting flexibility tayo sa paggamit ng ERF.
Suarez invited Abalos to join him in appealing to the Department of Budget and Management to create amendments in the fund’s purposes.Kasi kung hindi po magkakaroon ng pagbabago sa paggamit ng pondo, mag-aantay po tayo ng krisis, mag-aantay po tayo ng pandemya bago po natin magamitThe DMW budget sponsor said that one of the ways the ERF could be maximized in other ways is to build shelters, or a halfway home for provincial OFWs in Manila.
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