LAMINATED drivers’ license cards are now available in 36 licensing offices in Metro Manila, Land Transportation Office Chief Edgar Galvante said on Sunday.
He said those with pending applications for a license from January 1 to October 16 may now claim their cards at the 36 offices.
They only need to present the official receipts that were issued
to them when they applied for their license cards to claim them.
Galvante warned the public not to deal with fixers who may deceive them and ask for a fee to claim their cards.
“I would like to caution all the claimants that they need not pay a single centavo to claim their driver’s licenses since they have already paid for them,” he said.
The release of the cards will erase 700,000 of the three-million backlog in the license cards that are valid for three years.
The release of license cards in the other regions will follow and is expected to be completed by February next year, Galvante said.
The LTO’s last supplier of cards was Allcard Philippines Inc., but its contract expired in May.
The shortage of license cards started in 2013 when the Commission on Audit disallowed payments to former supplier Amalgamated Motor Philippines Inc. for lack of a proper contract.