{"id":250344,"date":"2022-05-19T10:44:53","date_gmt":"2022-05-19T10:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2022\/05\/19\/250344\/"},"modified":"2022-05-19T10:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-05-19T10:44:53","slug":"government-introduces-10-cashback-for-pensioners-for-making-cashless-transactions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2022\/05\/19\/250344\/","title":{"rendered":"Government introduces 10% cashback for pensioners for making cashless transactions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, May 19. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> The Armenian government has approved today a decision that will allow senior citizens to earn a certain amount of cashback if they use their credit or debit cards to pay for purchases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The decision comes into force from July 1, 2022. According to the decision, pensioners who hold cards of the banks which are government\u2019s partners will be refunded 10% of the total amount spent on payments and purchases in the previous month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Labor and Social Affairs Minister Narek Mkrtchyan noted that the total amount of&nbsp;cashback&nbsp;may not exceed 5000 drams a month. These amendments will also apply to payment of utility bills through ATMs of partner banks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Before June 1, the Ministry of Finance will publish the list of banks which have joined this program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister said that this program will also cover the citizens who receive allowances on their bank cards. &#8211;0&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YEREVAN, May 19. \/ARKA\/. The Armenian government has approved today a decision that will allow senior citizens to earn a certain amount of cashback if they use their credit or debit cards to pay for purchases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":158438,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250344","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250344","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=250344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250344\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/158438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}