Azerbaijan has suspended the issuance of consumer loans for pensioners, on which the Financial Market Control House (FMCH) informed on 21 April.
This is reportedly associated with problem loans – the retired officially belong to the poor. By January 1, about 1.3 million pensioners received the average labor pension of 176.03 AZN and the average old-age pension of 196.08 AZN.
According to Turan’s experts, this is blatant discrimination of the entire social layer, because the banks themselves are to decide to issue a loan to the client or not. Among the retired there are quite solvent people. Moreover, in view of such a ban the opportunity of the elderly, especially single people, to receive credit for the restoration of their health or the solution of urgent domestic problems will be narrowed. --17D-
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