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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Pahayag ni Marcos na ang pagbibigay ng ‘ayuda’ ay kanyang ‘top priority’ nangangailangan ng konteksto

By VERA Files | Nov 15, 2022 1:13 PM

Sinabi ni Pangulong Ferdinand Marcos Jr. na ang kanyang administrasyon ay naglalagay ng “patuloy na tulong” para sa proteksyong panlipunan at kabuhayan “sa tuktok” ng listahan ng prayoridad nito. Ito ay nangangailangan ng konteksto.

assistance, ayuda, bongbong marcos, budget, DOLE, DSWD, economy, ofws, OWWA, Pandemic, social protection, TUPAD

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Marcos’ claim that giving ‘ayuda’ is his ‘top priority’ needs context

By VERA Files | Nov 15, 2022 1:13 PM

Although the Marcos administration placed “social protection” as one of its budget priorities for “human capital development,” Sonny Africa, executive director of the nonprofit IBON Foundation, noted that the total allocation for these programs in 2023 is P33.28 billion less than the P262.67 billion for 2022.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Returning OFWs STILL required to take swab test, undergo quarantine

By VERA Files | Mar 12, 2021 11:50 AM

The guidelines for OFWs “have not changed,” Overseas Workers Welfare Administration (OWWA) Programs Services Division staff Krista Zulueta told VERA Files Fact Check in a phone interview on March 11.

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VERA FILES FACT CHECK: Video naming senators ‘behind’ OFW PhilHealth premium hike MISLEADING

By VERA Files | May 06, 2020 4:08 AM

It cherry-picks eight of 13 senators who authored the Universal Health Care Law.

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ASEAN at 50 Editor's Pick News

10 years in the making, ASEAN to sign consensus on migrants’ rights in summit

By Arianne Christian Tapao | Nov 11, 2017 2:13 PM

A key feature of the document is to afford mechanisms for ASEAN migrants such as labor contracts and legal representation.

ASEAN50, migration, OFW, ofws

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More than 2,000 trafficked Filipinos trapped in Syria

Dec 18, 2014 11:19 PM

By JAKE SORIANO A top foreign affairs official said some 2,000 overseas Filipino workers, all of them victims of human trafficking, remain trapped in Syria three years after civil unrest broke out there. Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) Senior Special Assistant Renato Villa said during a migration conference earlier this week the Philippine government is […]

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Dissecting the overseas Filipino population

Feb 14, 2013 9:36 AM

By CHERRY JOY VENILES WITH almost four decades of sustained and large‐scale migration of Filipinos to foreign countries, the Philippines has emerged as one of the major migrant‐sending nations, next to China and India. But it has also fallen into the trap of calling every Filipino overseas an Overseas Filipino Worker or OFW, clouding the […]

Filipino migrants, ofws, Overseas Filipinos