THE Department of Labor and Employment (DoLE) has started the first phase of issuance of an integrated identification card for overseas Filipino workers or the iDOLE OFW ID for easy transactions with government and private agencies concerning their overseas employment.

Labor Secretary Silvestre Bello 3rd on Thursday said more than 100,000 OFW ID cards are ready for distribution for returning OFWs or Balik Manggagawa (BM) only for its initial implementation while further test is being done to secure features of the system.

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