Latest in Hans Leo CacdacOverseas Filipino Workers’ (OFW) remittances reached nearly $40 billion in 2025, the highest level ever recorded, and continue to post positive growth of 2.4 to 2.5% in the first six to seven months of 2026 despite the ongoing Middle East crisis. Migrant Workers Secretary Hans Leo Cacdac explained…
The Aksyon Fund—a dedicated legal, medical, and financial assistance fund for overseas Filipino workers—was launched for the first time in 2023 under the Marcos administration, with no equivalent program ever existing under the defunct Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA) or any…
The Department of Migrant Workers’ (DMW) budget has more than doubled from ₱4.3 billion when it was established in 2023 to ₱10 billion in 2026, after President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. added ₱3 billion to the agency’s Aksyon Fund this year on top of ₱2 billion already allocated under the 2026 General…
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