00:00The Department of the Interior and Local Government, or DILG,
00:04or BIR, filed a solution against the misuse of PWD or Persons with Disabilities' ID.
00:11Here is the report.
00:14Digitalization.
00:15This is the answer that the Department of the Interior and Local Government
00:19is seeing in the misuse of PWD ID.
00:21According to DILG Assistant Secretary Jesse Lanete,
00:24having a centralized database for Persons with Disabilities in the country
00:28is the solution they see for the users of PWD IDs.
00:33In fact, one of the things that we see,
00:37one way to address this ultimately,
00:39is I think technology is the way moving forward.
00:43What our other government agencies have done is very good.
00:46When they integrate, for example, technology here in EGOV app,
00:52in fact, we were thinking out loud,
00:55what if we had a master list, a true master list of PWDs and it was issued.
01:00There is a centralized database and these names are accessible through the EGOV app.
01:06So it's like you have an ID that verifies that you really have a PWD.
01:10That's one thing also that we're considering.
01:14According to the Bureau of Internal Revenue,
01:16it will be faced with the complaint of tax evasion,
01:19and imprisonment of anyone who can prove their involvement in the sale and use of PWD IDs.
01:25The government is also losing money.
01:28The government is losing income because 20% of the GDP is lost.
01:34So that means, instead of using it for the projects of our government,
01:40and the PWDs are really benefiting,
01:43it's the fraudsters who are benefiting.
01:45The BIR also ordered the strict monitoring of other government agencies
01:49and establishments that have transactions related to PWDs
01:53to support the alleged illegal activities.
01:56From PTV Manila, Josh Garcia for Pagbansa News.
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