KULOB, October 20, 2012, Asia-Plus — More than 17,000 pensioners and people with disabilities in the city and the district of Kulob could not withdraw cash from automatic teller machines (ATMs) of Amonatbonk (Tajikistan’s savings bank) using their pension credit cards on October 20, which is the last day of receiving pensions and allowances through pension credit cards.
Narzullo Daminov, head of Amonatbonk’s main office in Kulob, says the Agency for Social Protection of the Population usually sends 2.6 million somoni due to local pensioners and people with disabilities to Amonatbonk’s ATMs in the city and the district of Kulob from the fifteenth to the twentieth day of each month.
“This time, the funds have not been sent to ATMs by this time,” Daminov said, noting that similar situation has emerged in other districts of the Kulob region as well.
According to him, no one of ten districts in the region has received money to pay pensions and allowances to this date.
“We need 12 million somoni to pay pensions and allowances to more then 71 pensioners and people with disabilities in all the ten districts of the region in October,” Daminov noted.
