Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Thi Hong (Photo: )
Hanoi (VNA) – Nearly 6.4 million poor and near-poorhouseholds had access to loans from the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) as of December 31, 2021.
Total outstanding loans reached 247.97 trillion VND (10.83 billion USD), up 9.6 percent compared to the end of 2020.
Notably, the VBSP’s chapters nationwide focused on a credit programme tosupport employers facing difficulties due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with more than2.31 trillion VND being disbursed for 2,474 employers in order to pay for over603,000 labourers.
According to Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Thi Hong, whois also Chairwoman of the Board of Directors of the VBS, since the beginning ofthis year, the VBSP has taken prompt actions to implement the task assigned by theParty and State.
It has rolled out effective measures to meet preferential capital demand of socialpolicy beneficiaries, she said.
Hong emphasised the need to do better in mobilising capital and collecting overdue debts, and ensuring the liquidity of the social policy banking system./.
The Vietnam Bank for Social Policy (VBSP) provided preferential loans totalling 23.8 trillion VND (1.1 billion USD) for 1.1 million clients in the first six months of this year.
The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies branch in the southern province of Dong Nai has offered more than 970 billion VND (43.11 million USD) in loans to nearly 38,000 poor and near-poor households.
The policy of concentrating trusted capital from the local budget to support the poor to the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has generated a motivation boosting the country’s economic development.
Directive No. 40-CT/TW of the Party Central Committee's Secretariat on strengthening the Party's leadership towards social policy credit has served as a new wind that creates breakthroughs for social policy credit.
The Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VBSP) has allocated 31.6 billion VND (1.36 million USD) to 207 enterprises to pay wages for 8,529 labourers who lost jobs due to impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
The State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) has issued Circular No.10/2022-TT-NHNN on refinancing the Vietnam Bank for Social Policies (VPSB) so it can roll out a number of relief measures for pandemic-hit labourers and employers affected by the pandemic.
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Governor of the State Bank of Vietnam (SBV) Nguyen Thi Hong (Photo: ) 
