Guide on OWWA Burial Assistance Requirements 2025 for Application
OWWA BURIAL ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS 2025 – Listed here are the documents required by the Overseas Workers Welfare Association for families of deceased OFWs who want to avail the aid.
The Filipino is one of the races that scatter across the globe. Undeniably, there are a lot of Pinoys who are working in the United States, Japan, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, and even in Europe. These people are working hard abroad to give their families a comfortable life back in the Philippines.
Truth be told that the compensation is a factor why many Filipinos work abroad. For example, in the case of nurses, what they can earn in the Philippines is nothing compared to how much they may earn abroad.
While it would be great to be serving in your home country, it is an undeniable truth that parents and breadwinners have to attend to their household needs first, thus, they are forced to work away from their loved ones despite the longing to be always be around them.
While the overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) are looking after the welfare of their families, the Overseas Workers Welfare Association, more popularly called OWWA, is taking care of the welfare of Pinoys working abroad.
OWWA is operating in the Philippines for several decades already and has come to the need of countless OFWs who were caught in different situations. It got loan offers as well as assistance that OFWs and their families may turn to in times of financial needs.
Aside from the OWWA OFW Business Loan, the government body also offers a burial assistance in case an unfortunate incident happens resulting to the death of the OFW. The beneficiaries or survivors of the deceased OFW may get Php 20,000.
To avail the offer, there are OWWA Burial Assistance requirements that must be prepared and submitted to the nearest branch of the Overseas Workers Welfare Association. Here are the documents required by the state entity:
- OFW Membership Record (MR) — you can get it from OWWA RWO
- copy of Passport or Seaman’s Identification Record Book (SIRB) of the OFW – Member — you can get it from MARINA
- two (2) Valid IDs and One (1) copy of ID Picture of claimant (1×1)
- Death Certificate (local o foreign; police / accident report – if death was caused by accident) — you can get it from Philippine Statistics Authority or Local Civil Registrar
- Burial Permit and Official Receipt of payment in funeral — you can get it from City / Municipal LGU
- Affidavit of Undertaking executed by claimant — you can get it from Notary Public
- Proof of Relationship to OFW Member — you can get it from Philippine Statistics Authority or Local Civil Registrar
- OFW CENOMAR, if single
- Marriage Certificate
- Birth Certificate of OFW, if the claimant is the parent
- Birth Certificate of the claimant and death certificate of deceased spouse, for OFWs child
In applying for the burial assistance, you must proceed to the OWWA Regional Welfare Office that covers the permanent address of the OFW and submit the documents. You will have to present the OFW I.D. of the deceased.