MANILA, Philippines—Almost three years since President Rodrigo Duterte signed the Philippine Identification System Act into law in August 2018, over 4,400 national IDs are now being distributed nationwide to individuals, mostly from poor households, who needed identification to get government aid and to open bank accounts.
National Statistician Dennis Mapa told the Inquirer that from an initial 956 so-called Philippine IDs (PhilIDs) picked up by the state-run Philippine Postal Corp. (PhilPost) from the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) last May 1, the number of IDs currently being delivered reached 4,416 as of Tuesday (May 4).
As the Philippine Identification …
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