{"id":250782,"date":"2023-02-23T11:29:34","date_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:29:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2023\/02\/23\/250782\/"},"modified":"2023-02-23T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2023-02-23T11:29:34","slug":"armenian-pensioners-non-cash-payments-exceed-12-billion-drams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2023\/02\/23\/250782\/","title":{"rendered":"Armenian pensioners&#8217; non-cash payments exceed 12 billion drams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, February 23. \/ARKA\/.<\/strong> Since July 1, 2022,\u00a0\u00a0senior citizens in Armenia used their pension cards to make more than 12 billion drams worth\u00a0noncash transactions\u00a0\u00a0and were refunded 1 billion 29 million drams under a government-designed\u00a0\u00a0cash-back scheme,\u00a0Labor and Social Affairs Minister Narek Mkrtchyan said at a government meeting Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He noted that there was a slight increase in volumes in January because payments rose in December due to New Year&#8217;s shopping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We expect the figures to increase in February, taking into account the fact that the scheme is&nbsp;now&nbsp;also available&nbsp;in&nbsp;villages with a population over 1,000 people,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the&nbsp;minister, the average monthly cashback is 3.2 thousand drams.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government-designed scheme enabling pensioners and socially disadvantaged families receiving benefits to get 10% cashback (no more than 5,000 drams a month) for&nbsp;making&nbsp;cashless transactions&nbsp;by using their cards&nbsp;was launched July 1, 2022.&nbsp;&nbsp;. ($1 &#8211; 390.48 AMD). &#8211;0\u2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Since July 1, 2022,\u00a0\u00a0senior citizens in Armenia used their pension cards to make more than 12 billion drams worth\u00a0noncash transactions\u00a0\u00a0and were refunded 1 billion 29 million drams under a government-designed\u00a0\u00a0cash-back scheme,\u00a0Labor and Social Affairs Minister Narek Mkrtchyan said at a government meeting Thursday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":199187,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[9214,12139,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-250782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-banks-en-en","8":"category-economy-en","9":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250782","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=250782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/250782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=250782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=250782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=250782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}