Starting January 30th, using a Pennsylvania Driver’s license as identification will not be enough to enter many federal facilities, and people will soon no longer be able to fly domestically with just their driver’s license under the changes from the REAL ID Act, writes Laura Benshoff for Newsworks.

The REAL ID Act was implemented in 2005 to combat terrorism and requires states to share driver’s license information with other states, something Pennsylvania has been resisting. The issues why the state is not yet in compliance range from funding to privacy risks.

While this change does not affect offices where people collect benefits, it does affect most other federal agencies. It also will not affect domestic travel using a license as ID until January 2018.

“At this point, PennDOT does not have an estimate for how much full implementation would cost,“ said Richard Kirkpatrick, communications director for PennDot, adding that “it would take 18 to 24 months to roll out all of the changes.“

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