Połacak began to delay the payment of pensions to bank cards. Thus, Priorbank delayed the payment of a pension for two days. Pensioners, who received a pension on the 7th, received only the 9th in August. Bank employees say that the Połacak Department of Labor, Employment and Social Protection did not provide lists for the payment of pensions.

Pensioners, who came for an explanation to the bank, were sent to the Połacak Social Security Department. The head of the department of payment of pensions and benefits Svetlana Bogdanova explained to pensioners that Priorbank on schedule should pay pensions only from the 11th day. The official of the Social Security Department, referring to the Decree of the Ministry of Labor and Social Security on December 2, 2015, explained the delay in August 2017. Svetlana Bogdanova explained earlier payments of pensions by banks in past months by the fact that financial resources on pensions came before the established date.

In the social security department, pensioners who received pensions in various banks came with complaints: Priorbank, BPS-Sberbank, Belinvestbank. In Połacak in August, only Belarusbank paid pensions on time. The pension security department is going to inform Połacak residents through the local newspaper about the established dates for payment of pensions. So, according to the information of the head of the department for the payment of pensions and benefits Svetlana Bogdanova in Połacak, now are the dates of payment of pensions for card accounts:

• Belarusbank – 7th day,
• Belinvestbank – 11th day,
• Priopbank – 11th day,
• BPS-Sberbank – 11th day,
• Belagroprombank – 12th day.

The issue of pensions in cash in different branches of Belarusbank is set from the 8th to the 11th day of each month.

At the same time, Svetlana Bogdanova, the head of the pension payments department, warns pensioners that if they change the pension issuing bank, only 21 will receive a pension.

Pensioners are indignant at the delay in pensions, but so far they have not shown any intention to protest in any way.

Alexander Morozov, vitebskspring.org