Nearly 42 million Filipinos have started the process to secure their national ID.
Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua said this in a report to President Rodrigo Duterte.
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Chua, during a Cabinet briefing aired on Wednesday, said 41,970,083 Filipinos have been registered for Step 1 or the demographic data collection on September 3, 2021.
As many as 28,682,680 individuals have completed the Step 2 registration or bio-metrics capture while 1,584,621 Filipinos have received their Phil ID cards.
The government is looking to register around 50 to 70 million people before the end of the year.
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Chua said in a statement earlier, “We aim to register 50 to 70 million Filipinos with the PhilSys and achieve 100% financial inclusion at the family level by the end of the year. This will help the government efficiently identify beneficiaries for social protection programs and spark the widespread use of electronic payments to accelerate the digital economy,”
As on August 22, 2021, 5.2 million Filipinos have signed up for bank accounts. (AW)
