PSA to rollout Step 2 sign up for PhilSys early January radyonatin.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from radyonatin.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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Senator Sonny Angara The reconciled 2021 budget which Congress has approved is currently awaiting the President’s signature. We have worked diligently to ensure that through this budget, assistance is extended in a timely manner to those who have been affected by calamity, poverty, disease, and homelessness in the past year. We have also funded laws and bills that will have far-reaching impacts on the lives of Filipinos. Some of these measures directly address matters pertaining to the COVID-19 pandemic, healthcare, and people’s welfare. One is the Doktor Para Sa Bayan Act, which is awaiting the President’ signature. This measure seeks to produce more healthcare workers around the country through medical scholarships given to qualified and deserving students. It also requires that each region will have at least one state-operated medical school. To this end, the 2021 budget allocates P1.033 billion as a seed fund for the development of medical schools in 12 state universities or colleges.
Having a good ID system is necessary for achieving sustainable development. Providing a legal identity for all is one of the objectives under the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) as cited in SDG No. 16, which is to promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all, and build effective, accountable, and inclusive institutions at all levels.” Hence, the establishment of the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) with the identification called PhilID, a non-transferrable foundation identity card that shall be issued to citizens and resident aliens living in the Philippines. To jumpstart the operation in the province of Siquijor, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) here shared during a Pulong-Pulong with the Siquijor Association of Information Disseminators (SAID) that it is constantly coordinating with the local government units of the province in preparation for the PhilSys which is set to start in 2021.
December 17, 2020 | 12:30 am Font Size PHILIPPINE STAR/MICHAEL VARCAS MALACAÃANG on Wednesday said President Rodrigo R. Duterte has approved the P3.52-billion additional budget to register 20 million more Filipinos in the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) by the end of 2021. âWe are hoping that by the end of 2021 all 20 million low-income families will have a bank account and that will be a major accomplishment,â Acting Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua said in an online briefing on Wednesday. Mr. Chua said that 8.7 million already went through the first step of the registration process this month. âOf the 8.7 million that we have registered for step 1, 89% have no bank accounts because they have no IDs that are sufficient or other requirements,” he said.