The SS Card's security features and the integrity of its information has made it a model for the government-initiated Unified Multi-Purpose Identification (UMID) System.

Since its inception in 1998, the SS Card has become a paragon of meaningful public and private sector partnership that has generated economies of scale and has advanced transparency and accountability. The SS Card has successfully hurdled legal impediments by mustering requisite support from the public and key stakeholders including a favorable ruling from the Supreme Court which had originally struck down government's efforts to institutionalize a National Identification System in 1998.

At present, SSS has garnered the support of government agencies as well as the World Bank to expand the scope and use of the SS Card to strengthen beneficiary targeting and program administration of the government's social protection and anti-poverty programs.