OFW cash aid in UAE: Submission of applications suspended, 252 Filipinos in Dubai claim remittance

  DUBAI – More than two hundred Filipinos in Dubai received Dh730 cash assistance from the Philippine Overseas Labor Office in Dubai (POLO Dubai) on Tuesday (April 21), as submission of new applications for the cash assistance was temporarily suspended, a Philippine official told Expatmedia.net. APRIL 23 UPDATE - POLO Dubai resumes acceptance of applications for cash aid “We remitted to 252 displaced OFWs (Overseas Filipino Workers) today,” Labor Attache Felicitas Bay told Expatmedia.net on Tuesday. As Expatmedia.net first reported, among those who claimed the cash assistance on Tuesday were Jinky Batalla De Guzman, a 30-year-old office administrator of a flowers trading company in Dubai, and Aries Arangorin Colico, another Dubai-based OFW. The Filipinos claimed their cash assistance through Al Ansari Exchange. https://www.expatmedia.net/filipina-dubai-receives-dh730-cash-assistance/2020/04/ The DOLE-AKAP for OFWs is a one-time cash assistance by the Philippine government through the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE) to help OFWs displaced by the Covid-19 pandemic. Those qualified for the cash aid are Filipinos who lost their jobs due to the pandemic, or have been asked to go on unpaid leave or on a “no work, no pay” scheme.

Submission of applications suspended

Meanwhile, POLO Dubai temporarily suspended the submission of applications for the cash aid “effective 12:01am, 21 April 2020”. When asked when the suspension of submission for applications will be lifted, Labor Attache Bay told Expatmedia.net: “DOLE will issue a statement on the matter”. “It is not just POLO Dubai alone, Bahrain and Kuwait already issued their respective advisories,” Bay added. APRIL 23 UPDATE - POLO Dubai resumes acceptance of applications for cash aid Bahrain suspended the submission of applications for cash assistance on April 18, while Kuwait will temporarily stop receiving applications on April 22, said Bay. In Dubai, POLO Dubai received 24,133 applications as of April 20, with more than 3,000 applications evaluated so far. ICA/Expat Media
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