Guide on OWWA Medical Assistance Requirements 2025 for Application
OWWA MEDICAL ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS 2025 – Here are the documents that OFWs must submit to apply for the aid.
Countless Filipinos are working abroad in the pursuit to give their families a better life and a brighter future. This is most true in the case of the parents and the breadwinners of their families who took the risk to be working away from their loved ones as working abroad may provide a better compensation in their case.
While the overseas Filipino workers want to take care of the future of their loved ones, there is also a government agency that ensures the welfare of these OFWs. It is the Overseas Workers Welfare Association or more popularly called OWWA.
OWWA is in the service of the Filipino people for decades already. It offers social benefits for OFWs, education and training courses, and many others. Aside from the OWWA OFW Loan, also got assistance offers for OFWs for various situations like medical needs.
One of the benefit offers of the Overseas Workers Welfare Association is the Supplemental Medical Assistance for OFWs or the MEDplus. It was crafted “to provide supplemental medical relief for active OWWA and PhilHealth member-OFWs who are afflicted with dreaded diseases and were hospitalized”.
According to OWWA, the medical aid offer is open for Pinoy workers who got diseases at the job sites or during their vacation in the Philippines. With regards to the amount of the financial assistance that an OFW may get, it is based on the case rate system set by the aid provider.
In applying for the benefit offer, there are OWWA Medical Assistance requirements that must be submitted. Here are the documents that must be prepared and submitted to the nearest branch of the Overseas Workers Welfare Association:
- OFW Membership Record (MR) — you may get it from OWWA RWO
- MEDPlus Application Form — you may get it from OWWA RWO
- one (1) Copy of Passport Size Picture — you may get it from OFW Member or Claimant
- valid Passport — you may get it from DFA
- valid Identification (I.D) Card — you may get it from Government or Company issued
- Member Data Record from PhilHealth — you may get it from PhilHealth
- Medical Certificate — you may get it from competent medical practitioner from legitimate medical institution/facility
According to OWWA, in case the aid will be claimed by the family of the OFW, there is a need to present a duly-notarized Special Power of Attorney executed by the OFW. In case the assistance was applied for by the family as the OFW died, a Death certificate of deceased OFW / marriage certificate or birth certificate of NOK-claimant issued by Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) is needed.