(HBO) - According to a report by the transaction office of Lac Son District’s Bank for Social Policies, in the first two months of this year, the sales of policy credit loans in the district reached over 23 billion VND, there were 678 households receiving loans. Up to now, the total credit debt in the district has reached over 470 billion VND, having 18.7 thousand of the customers in debt.

Among the credit programs, lending to poor households has the highest debt (136 billion VND, having 4,890 customers in debt), followed by lending to near-poor households (131 billion VND, 4,715 customers in debt), lending production households and the business ones in the difficult areas (66 billion VND), the households who have just got out of poverty (nearly 39 billion VND). 

Being a district with many difficulties, the poverty rate is still high, so the policy capital has played a very important role in the process of hunger eradication and poverty reduction in Lac Son district in recent years. In the first 2 months of the year, the District’s Bank for Social Policies has actively implemented the programs of the policy credit, timely transferring capital to the borrowers. Accordingly, in the district, 111 workers were created jobs, 129 clean water and sanitation works were built thanks to policy capital.


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