Senator Cynthia Villar on Monday asked the Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) to provide her a complete audit report of the DFA’s P150-million budget for re–patriation as she chided the same agency for its slow provision of financial assistance to distressed overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) sent back to the Philippines.

Villar, the chairman of the Senate committee on agriculture and food also urged the Department of Agriculture (DA) to promptly come up with new policies that would strengthen the government’s program for farm assistance to dissuade farmers, their wives or children from leaving the country to seek employment abroad.

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