The State Program on Preferential Lending in 2023 Implementation Results

The Supreme Council approved a report on the implementation last year of the State Program on preferential lending to defenders of the PMR and participants in combat operations in Afghanistan in the period from April 1978 to February 15, 1989, who became disabled. 26 applications were approved for a total loan amount of almost 530 thousand rubles in 2023. These are 22 participants in combat operations to protect the Pridnestrovian Moldavian Republic and 4 participants in combat operations in Afghanistan.

The state program was adopted by deputies in 2021 so that this category of citizens could take out a loan from Sberbank at a small interest rate, if necessary.

Loans were issued for a period of up to 3 years, according to the state program. 4% out of the 17% per annum is paid by the borrower, and 13% is covered by the state from the republican budget. About 78 thousand rubles were allocated to reimburse 13% last year.

Preferential loans were issued from 2021 to 2023 under the state program; budget funds will be used to repay them in subsequent years. The report notes that during the period of operation of the state program, the categories of potential recipients of loans at Sberbank expanded and ultimately affected participants in combat operations to protect the PMR and participants in combat operations in Afghanistan in the period from April 1978 to February 15, 1989, who became disabled I, II or III group of general disease, work injury, occupational disease, disease received during military service, disabled people of group I, II or III in terms of vision, as well as those who became disabled due to injuries received while protecting the PMR, concussion, injury or disease and who had not previously participated in program for this category.

Combatants who did not have a disability group were able to take out a preferential loan after the changes were made in 2023.

The state program is one of the measures of state support for war veterans and people with disabilities in the form of granting them the right to receive a preferential loan for individual housing construction and major repairs of their houses, for the purchase (construction) of a garden house, and landscaping of a garden plot.