Citizen Income: “There was a disinformation campaign seeking to create chaos” – Sectors – Economy

During this Friday there were long lines of beneficiaries who approached various service points of the agrarian Bank to collect the financial assistance provided by the National Government through the Citizen Income program.

In an interview with EL TIEMPO, the Director of Social Prosperity, Cielo RusinqueHe referred to the criticism that the program is receiving and assured that the Agrarian Bank is capable of executing the payments.

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He reiterated on several occasions that the situation that occurred in various cities of the country due to a disinformation campaign that sought to create chaos and demonstrate a supposed lack of capacity of the Agrarian Bank.

Why did the long lines appear to collect the benefit?

The first thing is to give a piece of peace of mind to the beneficiaries because It is false that if they do not charge in the first days or in the early hours of the morning the resource will not be guaranteed.

For the banked, this resource has no temporality, it will be guaranteed indefinitely, and for the unbanked, the dispersion is guaranteed in a staggered manner until July 31 with mechanisms such as the beak and certificate to avoid congestion.

additionally, there has been a lack of timely information to the public so that they use mechanisms such as the generation of a security code that allows them to withdraw the resource at any ATM and that it is not necessary, under any measure, to make these long lines at the offices of Banco Agrario.

I want to highlight that the lines are appearing in nine of the 911 points that Banco Agrario has in the national territory. In addition, in the midst of the misinformation that will end, millions of citizens received false messages telling them that they were beneficiaries of this Citizen Income program and they came to collect.

We are inviting you to corroborate the information with the official channels of Social Prosperity and Banco Agrario before moving to make the supposed collection of the benefit.

Also there is a possible congestion because they went from 166,000 banked people to more than 800,000 today. This commitment to bank access is due to the fact that one of the advantages that Banco Agrario offered us is that these beneficiaries can access the entire catalog of services offered by a bank.

The Agrarian Bank informed us that has granted more than 80,000 credits These families, who previously had no banking system, had no chance of receiving any credit from the formal banking system, which made them easy prey to ‘drop by drop’.

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Have you studied the possibility of enabling other means to make these payments?

This question allows us clarify a false support that has been disseminated by the media and networks in terms of the fact that the Banco Agrario is excluding from this bet the allies that have traditionally guaranteed this type of dispersal in the national territory.

The operator always works hand in hand with a series of allies and correspondents in the territory and this is the case of Banco Agrario. It is false that private individuals are being arbitrarily removed from the roadI don’t have any aside, it’s supported.

What the reality shows is that here there has been a possible congestion due to lack of information and for spreading false information.

Is Banco Agrario capable of making all these payments?

As it stands out in the past dispersion, the Agrarian Bank is in the capacity to cover and guarantee the operation. The time covered more than two million homes guaranteeing 94 percent of the dispersion and this time we are demonstrating thatIn record time, 40 percent of the payments for this benefit have already been insuredwhen normally 24 percent was projected.

Here we cannot talk about the fact that it is only the Agrarian Bank that guarantees dispersion because You can cash in any ATMIn addition, the bank continues to work hand in hand with allies, such as SuperGiros, which exist in the national territory as it had been doing.

First they told me that we were favoring SuperGiros, at one point they received a smear campaign where They tried to classify me as acts of corruption or unjustifiably beneficiary to these operators with whom we do not have any prioritized or favorable treatment.

If Banco Agrario was chosen, it was because at the time of making this choice it was the entity that guaranteed us the best conditions in terms of coverage, quality and rate to organize the spread.

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When will the long lines of beneficiaries stop being seen?

That congestion has already diminished, precisely today (yesterday) in the afternoon they told us that in the points that have been critical everything was under control.

What happened in these territories has been superimposed and overstated and we have information that if there was a disinformation campaign seeking to create that environment of chaos and the lack of capacity of the Agrarian Bank to respond to this operation, which is false.

It must also be clarified that it is the Agrarian Bank doubled the operational staff To avoid this congestion, opening hours were extended and there have been extended days of attention to citizens.

has also been done a call to the public to remain calm in the sense that there is no risk of not having access to the benefit, if they are beneficiaries the resource will be guaranteed. In addition, on the Banco Agrario page there are all the official channels so that they can access the means of payment without any setback.

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What is the balance of payments you have to date?

The transfers that are projected for this second payment are for two million families for a total of 791,328 million pesos.

Between July 7 and 13, we reached 805,000 beneficiaries throughout the countrywho have received 323,000 million pesos, in just six days we paid more than 40 percent of everything we have scheduled until July 31.

In the offices of Banco Agrario, 199,000 payments to bank beneficiaries were programmed, of which 65,000 have already been collected, which is equivalent to 32 percent of the total.

Here They cannot tell me that there is a breach or that we do not have capacity or that Banco Agrario is not complying, What happened here was suddenly a disinformation campaign. I appreciate opportunities like these to clarify for the public and to avoid these congestions that are generated as a result of this misinformation.