More than 17,600 Pensión 65 users use debit cards to collect subsidies

The Ministry of Development and Social Inclusion (Midis) reported that Pension 65 promotes the financial inclusion of citizens in vulnerable situations, to the point that so far this year, after training, 17,695 users received their respective debit cards to have access to the 250 soles bimonthly in any ATM or Multired agent of the Banco de la Nación.

Thus, Pension 65 is integrated into the financial system and they have the possibility of improving their quality of life, since they no longer have to travel to collect their subsidy.

The Midis details that throughout the six financial inclusion campaigns developed by the program with the support of the Banco de la Nación, the regions in which the most progress was made are: Piura (3,380 people with cards), Loreto (3,354), Ucayali (2,441), La Libertad (1,837), Ayacucho (959), San Martín (834) and Cajamarca (767).

This program also takes training to rural areas and areas with difficult access at the national level. In those cases, making use of ATM models, they carry out simulations of withdrawals of money with cards in the homes of the users, that is, they carry out training at home. This type of individualized training takes place, for example, at an altitude of more than 4,200 meters, in the Ccahuiña annex, in the district and province of Castrovirreyna, in the Huancavelica region.

“Pension 65 always goes beyond the delivery of the financial subsidy. It articulates at the intersectoral, intergovernmental and inter-institutional level so that users and users have access to various services. In this logic, the program encourages financial inclusion through the credit card. The objective is that elderly people living in extreme poverty improve their quality of life, ”said the executive director of Pensión 65, Mabel Gálvez Gálvez.