SSS: UMID will be released in 30 working days

THE state-run Social Security System (SSS) has assured its members delivery of Unified Multi-Purpose Identification (UMID) cards within 30 working days from their card application.

In a statement issued over the weekend, SSS President and Chief Executive Officer Emmanuel F. Dooc said the production of UMID cards is now back to its normal processing time, starting September, after it experienced delays in midFebruary.

The delay was due to the stoppage of operation of the Central Verification System (CVS) of the Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA), which affected one million UMID card applications. The CVS checks biometric uniqueness of member applicants, which is required prior to the issuance of UMID cards.

SSS said UMID cards are released for mailing within eight days upon successful application and data capture of the member and will be delivered via Philpost within two weeks for National Capital Region and four weeks for those with registered addresses outside NCR.

“To date, SSS has already released more than nine million UMID cards to its members,” the statement reads.

The CVS stopped operation from mid-February to mid-June due to the high temperature of the data center of Department of Information and Communications Technology (DICT).

To date, SSS said the temperature in DICT remained stable and compliant with the required temperature for data centers for the proper functioning of the CVS.

The CVS was housed in DICT by PSA after SSS turned over the CVS administration to PSA in July 2015. SunStar Philippines