Nearly 42M Filipinos registered for national ID so far —NEDA

Close to 42 million Filipinos have already begun the process of securing their national ID, Socioeconomic Planning Secretary Karl Kendrick Chua said in a report to President Rodrigo Duterte.

Speaking at a Cabinet briefing aired on Wednesday, Chua said 41,970,083 Filipinos have been registered for Step 1 or the demographic data collection as of September 3, 2021.

A total of 28,682,680 individuals have completed the Step 2 registration or biometrics capture, while 1,584,621 Filipinos have received their PhilID cards.

The government is eyeing to register around 50 to 70 million people before the end of the year.

“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,” Chua said in a statement last July.

As of August 22, 2021, 5.2 million registrants have signed up for bank accounts, according to Chua.—AOL, GMA News