Why does it cost P9,500 to get a driver’s license? lawmaker asks

A lawmaker has sought a congressional inquiry into the “excessive” cost of getting a driver’s license in the country for the first time. | jiandradeINQ /PDI

According to the website of the Land Transportation Office , a first-time driver is required to use only a student permit for at least one year and that could cost as much as P2,500 if it includes the theoretical driving course, which could be priced at an average of P1,500.

Aside from the testing and processing fees, a driver may have to pay another fee for the plastic driver’s license itself, but he may have to wait for months because of problems the LTO has been having with its plastic card suppliers over the past few years. In 2017, the Duterte administration undertook an P836-million deal with a German company for the delivery of plastic license cards, but LTO chief Jay Art Tugade admitted last December that the agency still had a sizable backlog.

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