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PSA reports additional 1.5-M registrants for national ID system
Published 2 months ago
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.