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PSA reports additional 1.5-M registrants for national ID system
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MANILA – Some 1.5 million adult Filipinos from low-income families have been registered to the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) after the program was expanded nationwide starting January 18 this year.
In a virtual briefing on Thursday, Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) and National Statistician Claire Dennis Mapa said the additional registrants were included in the list during the first six days of the expanded registration program.
Mapa said when the national ID program was rolled out last year, it only covered 32 provinces wherein some 10.5 million Filipinos from low-income households were registered.
He said Step 2 of the registration process, which involves the capturing of biometric information, has begun in six provinces – Laguna, Cavite, Batangas, Bataan, Zambales, and Rizal.
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Photos sent to Palace reporters late Thursday showed the President having his biometric information being taken as he registered into the system.
He was also seen interacting with the encoder of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) before undergoing the registration process.
The President held his thumb up as he posed for a photo while holding his printed national ID card.
Photos showed that Executive Secretary Salvador Medialdea and President Duterte’s long-time aide Senator Bong Go also had themselves registered into the PhilSys.
President Duterte signed Republic Act (RA) No. 11055, the Philippine Identification System Act in August 2018. It aims to establish a single national ID for all Filipinos and resident aliens. It also consolidates government-issued IDs but will not automatically replace existing ones.
NAVAL, Biliran, Jan. 11 (PIA) For the first quarter of 2021, the office of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in Biliran province targeted to register at least 26,000 household heads from the low-income families of the province to the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys).
Republic Act No. 11055 or the Philippine Identification System Act mandates the establishment of a single national identification system to register all Filipinos and resident aliens of the Republic of the Philippines.
Renavil V. Cueva, Chief Statistical Specialist of PSA Biliran, informed that the Office of the President directed the National Economic Development Authority (NEDA) and PSA to fast-track the implementation of PhilSys to assist in the identification of qualified beneficiaries for emergency subsidy programs addressing the Covid-19 health crisis.