Biometrics at the Philippine Social Security System

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Biometrics at the Philippine Social Security
System
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Agenda

• About SSS
• Biometrics in SSS
• Issues in sharing of biometrics among government
  agencies
• Future Plans

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About SSS

• Social Insurance established in 1957
• 27.2 Million Members served by 4,109 Employees
• Assets US 6.042 Billion
• Member Contributions US 1.508 Billion
• Investments Other Income US 435.8 Million
• Benefits Disbursed US 1.48 Billion
• Operating Expenses US 166 Million

December 2007 SSS-Management Information System
Data
Exchange rate at 1US Php 41.00
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SSS Branches
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Biometrics in SSS

• Implemented in 1998
• Integrated system awarded to Ayala
  Systems/Sagem/Polaroid consortium
• AFIS HW/SW
• 254 fixed and 20 mobile capture work stations
• Polaroid Teslin Card production system
• On-Serts card packaging system
• Live fingerprint capture of 10.8 million SSS
  members
• Total of 10.4 million biometric cards issued

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SSS Biometrics Card
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SSS 1Many AFIS Workflow
Transmit Enrollment records
Enroll SSS member
START
SSS Branches
Good Quality FP?
Yes
Suspect Match?
No
Batch Import
Card Generation Requests
Produce, Package Mail cards
1Many Matching
No
Yes
Quality Control (Low Quality)
Fraud/ Validation
SSS ID Card Center
SSS Members
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AFIS Hits
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AFIS Hits
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AFIS Hits
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AFIS Hits
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AFIS Hits

• Savings from Fraud Detection and Prevention
• Benefit claims cancelled by the SSS Anti-Fraud
  Department due to double claims using different
  SS numbers starting the year 2004 up to the
  present.
• Close to 6,000 fraudulent cases have yet to be
  investigated but may bring as much as 26.80
  million in savings if at least half of these are
  erroneous pension payments.

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Savings in Fraud detection/prevention
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USABILITY OF BIOMETRICSSSS 11 Biometrics
Validation Workflow
Start (Scan 2-D Barcode of SS Card and Do 11
matching of fingerprint)
Annual Confirmation of Pensioners Program (ACOP)
SS Card PIN Change
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USABILITY OF BIOMETRICSSSS 11 Frontend
Biometrics Validation WorkflowSocial Security
Services Portal System
Start (Scan 2-D Barcode of SS Card and Do 11
matching of fingerprint)
Social Security Services Portal System
SS Portal choices are Loans, Contributions, Sickn
ess, Maternity, Disability, Retirement,
and Members Update (E4)
Eligible
Not Eligible
Proceed with respective existing SSS
application system
System-generated Acknowledgment Receipt issued to
member bearing the transaction status
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USABILITY OF BIOMETRICSInitial Implementation
Issues

• Footprint of enrollment stations - requires big
  space allocation
• Limitation in the model/brand of enrollment
  station peripherals
• Fingerprints that are hard to capture and perform
  1-t0-1 matching
• Small network bandwith
• Local presence of AFIS provider

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Biometrics use with other Government Agencies

• Executive Order 420
• Unified Multipurpose ID (UMID)
• Participating agencies include SSS, Government
  Service Insurance System (GSIS), Philippine
  Health Insurance Corp. (Philhealth), National
  Economic Development Agency (NEDA), National
  Statistics Office (NSO) Home Develpment Mutual
  Fund, Commission on Information Communications
  Technology (CICT)
• Executive Order 700
• Amending EO 420
• SSS as lead agency in UMID

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Proposed UMID Architecture
Smart Card Reader 2
Smart Card Reader 1
(AGENCY 2)
(AGENCY 1)
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Biometrics use with other Government Agencies

• Need for agreement on the following
• Funding for the ID Costs of citizens not in
  member agencies database
• Biometrics non-biometrics data flow between
  participating agencies
• Standard policies and architecture in the smart
  card implementation

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Future Plans

• For SSS
• AFIS enhancement
• Procurement of additional enrolment stations
• Upgrade to contactless smart card
• Compliance to UMID specifications

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End of Presentation
REPUBLIC OF THE PHILIPPINES
SOCIAL SECURITY SYSTEM
MARIO R. SIBUCAO Vice President MAC Program
Management
7/F SSS Building East Avenue, Diliman Quezon
City, Philippines 0800
Tel no [phone] E-mail
sibucaomr_at_sss.gov.ph