Where is the national ID?
This was the question posed by some senators to officials of the National Economic and Development Authority and Philippine Statistics Authority during the Senate public hearing on the agencies’ proposed budget for 2024 presided over by Sen. Sonny Angara.
For his part, Sen. Sherwin Gatchalian lamented that while identification has been expanded to accept barangay clearance, PWD and senior citizens IDs, the cleaning process of these cards is still not regular as not all LGUs clean up their database. The PSA official said the digital national ID could still be used in some transactions like banks. He noted that there are three modes to produce national IDs – physical cards, printed on paper and in cellular phones.
“Based on their schedule as they presented to us, they will clear everything by September 2024,” Mapa said, noting that the PSA has registered 81 million Filipinos in the national ID system or 81 percent of the country’s population aged five years and above.
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