Overseas Filipino workers (OFW) will now pay up to P29,400 annual contribution for Philhealth as the agency increases the rate effective January 2021. Check the computation of the 2021 Philhealth contribution for OFW below. Philhealth announced that they will start implementing another…Read More »
The Social Security System (SSS) member contributions including land-based overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) will once again increase starting in January 2021. The newest SSS Contribution Table 2021 for Land-based OFW in 2021 details the increase in premiums. SSS announced that the contribution…Read More »
The annual tradition of paying tribute to overseas Filipinos (OFs) and their families during the holiday season continues amid the pandemic as BDO and SM Supermalls hold virtual ‘Pamaskong Handog 2020′ on Sunday, December 13. In a media teleconference on Wednesday, the…Read More »
Small businesses and overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) may borrow up to P100,000 through the Expanded Micro Business Recovery Assistance During Crisis and Emergency (EMBRACE) Program of the Iloilo Provincial Government. The Sangguniang Panlalawigan has passed the Provincial Ordinance 2020-07-06 entitled “An Ordinance…Read More »
ONE of the worst effects of the COVID-19 pandemic is the increase in unemployment rate worldwide. As social distancing and community lockdowns have been strictly enforced to limit the spread of the virus, businesses had to either contend with a diminished customer…Read More »
Up to 88% of Overseas Filipino Workers (OFW) have no definite plans as to when they will retire and come home for good. This was revealed in a survey commissioned by Sun Life of Canada Philippines, Inc. (Sun Life) conducted between August…Read More »
A bill seeking to encourage overseas Filipino workers to invest a portion of their remittances with the government has been approved in the committee level of the House of Representatives. House Bill No. 530 entitled An Act Creating the Overseas Filipino Workers…Read More »
Experts in the Philippines and other countries have been warning us: along with the wave of COVID-19 infections would be a wave of mental illness. There’s no avoiding that: people are anxious, afraid, and many have lost jobs and face an uncertain…Read More »
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (Philhealth) announced that the payment for increased premium contribution of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) is voluntary during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. During the hearing of the Joint Congressional Oversight Committee on the Universal Health Care Law,…Read More »
Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) is giving consideration to the plight of overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) by making payment of contribution voluntary during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. However, the agency reminded migrant workers that provisions of Republic Act 11223 or…Read More »