My Number Card To support local governments on the assumption of a large increase in grants Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications September 15 6:09

As the number of cards issued is expected to increase significantly due to the introduction of My Number Card utilization measures, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is promoting support for creating a system to prevent confusion at the municipal office in charge of issuing operations.

The government plans to gradually introduce card utilization measures, such as a system for adding points that can be used for shopping, and a system that can be used in place of health insurance cards, to spread the use of My Number Cards.

This is issue number that has remained about 17.8 million copies in the beginning of this month point in time, be increased up to about 100 million in prospect has to be assumed after three years.

For this reason, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications is promoting support for creating a system, such as holding briefing sessions for persons in charge so that confusion does not occur at the municipal offices in charge of issuing cards.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications wants to make sure that cards can be issued smoothly, with the policy of continuing to provide individual support while ascertaining the number of cards that can be issued by each local government.