UNDERSPENDING is so rampant in the government that even funds intended for distressed overseas Filipino workers are reportedly not being spent properly despite thousands of OFWs needing legal assistance.
Senator Grace Poe, a member of the Senate committee on Labor, Employment and Human Resources Development, over the weekend said that of the 7,638 OFWs who had been charged and detained as of 2015, only 252 were assisted by the government, particularly the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA), in 2014.
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