The Land Transportation Office (LTO) is set to release this week a new renewal schedule for expired driver’s licenses.
“We will make a formal announcement within the week and we are just getting the numbers,” LTO chief Vigor Mendoza II told reporters.
“We are no longer able to cater for the day to day consumption because we have a backlog of about 800,000 from May to June and we only have 1.1 million or 1.2 million cards left,” he added.
Mendoza said the agency will focus on the current backlog and the expired license for November will be catered by May next year.
“In December, we will give the card that expired in June,” he added.
Driver’s licenses that expired from 1 to 31 May 2023 are eligible for renewal from 1 to 30 November 2023 while licenses that expired from 1 to 30 June 2023 may be renewed from 1 to 31 December 2023.
Expired licenses from 1 to 31 July 2023 will be renewed from 1 to 31 January 2024 and licenses that expired in August 2023 may be renewed from 1 to 29 February 2024.
For driver’s licenses that expired from 1 to 30 September 2023, the schedule date is from 1 to 31 March 2024.
Earlier, a Quezon City court issued a writ of preliminary injunction that prevented the LTO from delivering plastic driver’s licenses.
AllCard Inc. earlier filed a complaint against Banner Plastic Card Inc. which submitted a bid of P219 million inclusive of taxes to supply the LTO with plastic blanks for the license cards, but higher than the former’s bid of only P177-million.
Of the 5.2 million plastic driver’s license cards, the supplier already delivered 1.9 million cards.
To address the backlog, Mendoza said the agency plans to bid the 4.6 million driver’s license cards under the 2024 national budget.
