The Credit Information Corporation (CIC) directs its Submitting Entities (SEs) to include the Philippine Identification (PhilID) card number of borrowers in their submission of basic credit information to the CIC database.
The country’s sole public credit registry and repository of credit information has issued CIC Letter Memorandum No. 2022-02 last April 11 requiring submitting entities to submit the PhilID card number as a secondary ID.
“We are currently working on the full compatibility of the National ID into our Credit Information System. The seamless integration of the PhilID in the CIC database will greatly enhance the reliability and accuracy of our credit data,” CIC president and CEO Ben Joshua Baltazar said.
Under the implementing rules and regulations of Republic Act 9510 or Credit Information System Act (CISA), participating submitting entities are required to submit basic credit data of all their data subjects to the CIC.
Among the data required to be submitted is the data subjects’ government-issued identification information.
The CIC directive is in compliance with the Advisory from the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), advising all concerned government agencies, the private sector, and the general public that, “PhilIDs issued by the PSA shall be the official proof of identity of the cardholder in dealing with national government agencies, local government units, government-owned or controlled corporations, government financial institutions, state universities and colleges, and all private sector entities.”
In anticipation of the implementation of the RA 11055 or the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys) Act, the CIC has been preparing its internal systems to receive information derived from PhilSys.
“With the further distribution of the PhilID cards and implementation of the PhilSys Act, the CIC is looking forward to having all credit information associated with the use of the National ID submitted to the CIC database. This will greatly improve the scope of our borrowers’ historical credit information, which will improve its accuracy and usefulness in the assessment of their creditworthiness,” Baltazar added.
The PSA reported that a total of 8.1 million PhilID cards have been distributed nationwide. This is equivalent to 24.2 percent of its distribution target for 2022, which is set at 33.8 million PhilID cards.
