Talking about the relevance of Philippine National ID, a lot of Filipinos are still curious about it. Primarily, questions like “what is its difference from other government issued IDs?” or “why should I get a Philippine National ID?” To answer these questions, here are the reasons, perks and usage of having a Philippine National ID: 1. Application for services and benefits offered by SSS, Philhealth, GSIS, PAG-IBIG and other government agencies. 2. Can be used for tax related transactions. 3. Registration and voting identification purposes. 4. Can be used for admission in private or public school, colleges and universities....

  Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) in partnership with Banko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) ensures that the security features of Philippine Identification Card (PhilID) is able to protect citizen’s information against identification or counterfeiting theft.   It is designed to covert and overt physical and digital security elements. Moreover, it has QR code with selected demographic information for digital transactions and offline verification of identity purposes. PSA said that, “PhilID will soon roll out a website and offline mechanisms to enable relying parties such as government agencies and financial service providers to verify, using public-private key cryptography, the digital signature in...

  A lot of Filipinos are still in the verge of asking themselves “what type of vaccine should I get?” With the rapid increase of positive cases of COVID-19 in the Philippines, the national government together with the Local Government Units and Department of Health ordered millions of vaccine for immunization. Two brands among the variety of vaccines have been talk of the town. The Pfizer and Sinovac.   “Magiging zombie ka after two years!” this kind of humor is already buzzing to a lot of cities and municipalities who are using Sinovac-CoronaVac in vaccinating their people. Different from the...