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Up to six million Filipinos will receive their national identification cards as the first batch of recipients set out in September by the The Philippine Statistics Authority (PSA). The PSA has confirmed the proceedings at the House Oversight Committee on Population and Family Relations in Dumaguete City, Negros Occidental. The President and House Speaker Gloria Macapagal Arroyo's aim is to speed up the implementation of the Philippine Identification System (PhilSys). PSA officials assure the House panel that they are ready to make the first batch of registration and are determined to issue the first ID number in September. "I am happy that it's all systems go for the National ID system based on the timeline they have presented to us this morning," Arroyo told reporters after the Oversight hearing in Dumaan City. At the hearing, lawyer Lourdines Dela Cruz, Deputy National Statistician of PSA, said that in accordance with RA 11055 (The Philippine Identificatio