The Philippine government is considering introducing high-tech identity cards to low-income people for buying government subsidized food, reported local television network GMA News on Saturday.
With such high-tech IDs, the Department of Social Welfare and Development (DSWD) will be able to verify identities of subsidized rice beneficiaries and to prevent fraud, said the report.
DSWD secretary Esperanza Cabral told the TV network that the cards will soon contain bar codes which will trigger an alarm when fraud is detected.
Besides discouraging the use of fake cards, it will also prevent individuals from buying government-subsidized rice and then selling them at higher rates, she said.
The Philippine government has been spending millions of U.S. dollars to buy food abroad and sell them at subsidized prices to the low-income people as food prices were soaring.
Source: Xinhua
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