Overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) whether landbased or seabased is now entitled to an insurance policy and they will get it for free because it will be shouldered by the recruitment/manning agencies that will deploy them.

This is because recruitment agencies are now required to pay the insurance coverage of OFWs as stated in Republic Act 10022. The chief administrator of the Philippine Overseas Employment Administration (POEA), Jennifer Jardin-Manalili warned agencies that will try passing on to their hired OFWs (whether directly or indirectly) the costs of the insurance coverage. Manalili said agencies that will be caught violating the new rule will face punishment in accordance with existing POEA rules and regulations.

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