{"id":884600,"date":"2026-09-08T15:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884600\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T15:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T15:52:42","slug":"over-24m-filipinos-used-national-id-to-set-up-gcash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/884600\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 24M Filipinos used national ID to set up GCash\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"720\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/GCASH-1.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"GCASH\"\/>BW FILE PHOTO<\/p>\n<p class=\"p4\">OVER 24 million Filipinos used Philippine Identification System ID or the national ID to open accounts in e-wallet platform GCash, the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA) said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">\u201cBringing national ID and GCash registration services directly to barangays helps remove barriers to access, providing unbanked families with a trusted means of identification and easier access to essential financial services,\u201d National Statistician and Civil Registrar General Claire Dennis S. Mapa said in a media release on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">PSA said that as of May this year, 61% of newly created GCash users, or equivalent to 24.4 million users, have used national ID for account verification and creation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT) has been pushing for the use of national ID for verification for different online platforms.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">The National Telecommunications Commission (NTC), for instance, proposed an amendment to the memorandum circular governing the subscriber identity modules (SIM) registration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">In a notice, the NTC has proposed an amendment to section 7A and related provisions of NTC Memorandum Circular No. 001-12-2022, which prescribes the rules and guidelines for the registration of new and existing SIMs of end-users.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Under its proposal, the NTC said that the national ID should be the only acceptable identification document for SIM card registration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p3\">Earlier this week, the DICT said it has asked Meta to integrate the national ID into account for user verification. \u2014 Ashley Erika O. Jose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BW FILE PHOTO OVER 24 million Filipinos used Philippine Identification System ID or the national ID to open&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884601,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[454445,64,63,203,105],"class_list":["post-884600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mobile","tag-ashley-erika-o-jose","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-mobile","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884600"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884600\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}