Filipino OFW Families

The Philippine Senate has approved on final reading House Bill 5842 which which will grant a P2,000 across-the-board monthly increase in monthly pension to 1.9 million pensioners of the Social Security System. Fifteen senators voted in…

Education for Development Scholarship Program (EDSP) recipient, Princess Juneire Madula Peligro oriented herself to keep moving forward despite the hurdles she stumbled upon her way. The only girl among the three children of businesswoman…

Eight out of 10 Filipino children are at risk of being victims of sexual abuse or bullying online, according to a recent study by the United Nations Children’s Fund (Unicef). Described as "child slavery" by a senior Unicef official,…

The family of Fernando Peralta has been setting up his wake at home in Porac, Pampanga for the past two days. Peralta died of heart illness in Tel Aviv, Israel on May 25. But conspicuously missing is his remains in a coffin. That's because…

Over 40,000 overseas Filipino workers have benefited from over P21 million distributed by the Social Security System's Flexi-fund program in 2015. The 40,216 recipients are members of the SSS Flexi-fund Program, according to Judy Frances…

It is a well-established fact that Filipinos working abroad send money to families in the Philippines. In fact, in March 2016, they sent home a record-high $2.7 billion. However, in many cases, sending money to Filipinos has been a result…

In some cases it is not enough for one member of the family to be the breadwinner. There are couples who both work abroad. It is ideal if they work close to each other, meaning, they are employed within the same country. For example, the…

Families relying on money remittance from overseas Filipino workers must be prepared for the day money sent to them regularly would eventually stop coming, TV host and financial adviser Suze Orman said on Monday. Speaking at a talk…

Honor your father and your mother. You shall not steal. Two of the ten commandments we can read from the Bible's book of Exodus. A Facebook post makes us wonder how such simple and universally accepted laws get easily breached. A public…

Aiming to help families of overseas Filipino workers (OFW) manage their finances in a smarter way, United Nationalist Alliance presidential bet Vice President Jejomar Binay wants to improve financial literacy programs being taught to them.…