TSA tells People they can’t use their Costco membership card as an ID

The Transportation Safety Administration clarified this week {that a} Costco membership card just isn’t enough to current at airport safety. 

“We love hotdogs & rotisserie chickens as a lot as the subsequent particular person however please cease telling individuals their Costco card counts as a REAL ID as a result of it completely doesn’t,” the TSA wrote on Fb Wednesday. 

The reminder comes lower than a month after the US started requiring a REAL ID driver’s license when flying domestically Might 7. 

Other than REAL IDs, which have enhanced federal requirements, home flyers can even use their passports or one other federally-approved type of identification like Protection Division-issued IDs (however not a Costco card). 

“Division of Protection IDs for lively and retired navy proceed to be an appropriate type of ID at TSA checkpoints following the implementation of REAL ID final month,” the TSA wrote on Fb Thursday. 

REAL IDs have been obtainable for years earlier than the requirement went into impact after a 2005 regulation was handed primarily based on suggestions from the 9/11 Fee report. 

With many procrastinating till shortly earlier than the deadline, DMV facilities have been inundated with lengthy traces in April and early Might, and there was confusion about what types of identification, reminiscent of a passport, delivery certificates or Social Safety card, have been acceptable at a DMV to safe a REAL ID.