With less than a year to reach the government's goal of distributing the Individual Number Card to almost all citizens by the end of March next year, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has set up a promotion headquarters to accelerate its spread, and Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kaneko is a local government. I instructed them to strengthen their efforts.
The government aims to distribute My Number Cards to almost all citizens by the end of March next year, but as of the 26th, the number of issued cards was 55.66 million, and the issuance rate was only 44%.
The Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications has set up a promotion headquarters within the ministry and held its first meeting on the 28th, saying that it is necessary to accelerate the spread of cards.
At the first meeting, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications Kaneko said, "Prime Minister Kishida has instructed us to strongly promote the spread of cards. We hope that the local government's efforts to promote the spread will be firmly supported by all means."
In the future, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications would like to accelerate the dissemination by summarizing the grant rate for each local government, sharing the know-how of local governments that are progressing in acquisition, and asking local governments that are not progressing in terms of issues.