{"id":251277,"date":"2023-12-25T07:23:37","date_gmt":"2023-12-25T07:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/2023\/12\/25\/251277\/"},"modified":"2023-12-25T07:23:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-25T07:23:37","slug":"the-number-of-beneficiaries-of-the-cashback-program-for-pensioners-increased-by-973","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/2023\/12\/25\/251277\/","title":{"rendered":"The number of beneficiaries of the cashback program for pensioners increased by 973%"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>YEREVAN, December 25. \/ARKA\/. <\/strong>According to the data of July 2022,\u00a0the number of beneficiaries of the of 10% refund from pension and benefit program from non-cash transactions,\u00a0has grown by\u00a016,903, the volume of non-cash circulation (monthly) was 0.52 billion AMD, and 390,000 citizens received their pension or benefit by card, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs reported alst Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As of November 2023, the number of beneficiaries of the program increased by 973% to 164,879, the volume of non-cash circulation (monthly) reached 6.97 billion, an increase of 1,340%, and the number of people receiving pension or benefits by card became 515,000, increasing by 32%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Prime Minister Pashinyan noted that pensioners should be informed about the changes implemented in this direction.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Before, we used to say: 4-5 banks participate in the program, change the bank, etc. It doesn&#8217;t matter now, with all banks, 10 percent of pensioners&#8217; non-cash expenses are refunded. I appeal to our dear pensioners, especially in rural areas, where shops refuse to accept non-cash payments, to raise the matter to the State Revenue Committee,&#8221;&nbsp;he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cashback program&nbsp;&nbsp;has been in effect since July 1, 2022.&nbsp;It&nbsp;was extended by the&nbsp;&nbsp;the Armenian government until the end of 2023.&nbsp;-0-<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the data of July 2022,\u00a0the number of beneficiaries of the of 10% refund from pension and benefit program from non-cash transactions,\u00a0has grown by\u00a016,903, the volume of non-cash circulation (monthly) was 0.52 billion AMD, and 390,000 citizens received their pension or benefit by card, the Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs reported alst Friday<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":205460,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","tstyn_error":""},"categories":[12139,9216],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-251277","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy-en","8":"category-news"},"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251277","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=251277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251277\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/armbanks.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}