TAGBILARAN CITY, Bohol (PIA) – What are the chances that your now getting your Philippine Identification System (PhilID) is that you gave out wrong information? Or that you have moved to a new address?
These are some of the possible reasons the supervising statistician of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in Bohol, Emmanuel Galab shared during the recent Kapihan sa PIA on the PhilID cards that were undelivered because postmen could not locate the addressee, and, after three delivery attempts have to be Returned to Sender (RTS).
This as the PSA in Bohol said that they have in the office these undelivered PhilIDs that have yet to be reunited to their rightful owners.
These are part of the 1,089,330 PhiID cards and electronic PhilIDs (ePhilID) that the PSA has processed and delivered to the Boholanos as of October 10, 2023.
Of these, 748,196 have been delivered by Post Office as of August 2023, Galab updated the PIA.
The rest, or the 341,134 of these too, are printed ePhilIDs issued and delivered by the PSA.
And while many people wished the government could get them the plastic cards instead of the electronic printouts, Bohol PSA chief Jessamyne Anne Alcazaren said the plastic and the printouts all have the same functions, that a plastic card works the same way as the ePhilID.
She also assured that they would be informing private and government establishments that the same Quick Response (QR) code in the authentication and verification of identities, and that a law is now effective in going after establishments which do not honor the PhilID or its e-PhiliID.
After-all, PSA has already listed and registered in the two-step registration which the government started years ago, some 1,127,808 Boholanos, according to the data as of October 10.
This leave about 38,478 of these cards still undelivered, some due to the inavailability of the addressee when delivered in their registered home address.
And with some 1,394,329 Boholanos as to the local population, the PSA here looks at getting to the 266,521 who still have to get into the list and claim their national identification.
The 80.88% accomplishment is something that worries Provincial Statistician Jessamyn Anne Alcazaren who head the national agency in Bohol tasked to complete and cover the entire population in Bohol.
This is one of the concerns that we would wish to address, Alcazaren said, while the PSA teams have been deployed to airports, seaports, malls and even the towns to get to all Boholanos.
For now, with fewer and fewer people registering, the PSA hopes that those who have not been registered can visit their office to finally be able to get their national IDS.
For those who have yet to get their PhilID cards, they may go to the PSA office at Galeria Luisa to check on the returned mails if their long-awaited cards are there.
Due to data privacy Act, the PSA is still studying the possibility of publishing the names of those card owners whose cards can be claimed from the office. (rahc/PIA-7/Bohol)
