The beneficiaries should be those who have risen out of poverty within the last three years.
The loan terms will be agreed upon by the bank and the borrowersbased on their production, business and payment capacity.
The interest rates are 125 percent of those for poor households andthose for overdue debts are equal to 130 percent of lending interestrates.
The extension of debts is similar tothose for poor households stipulated in the Government decree on creditfor poor people and preferential policy beneficiaries.
According to the Bank for Social Policies, around 200,000 householdswho have risen out of poverty have yet to access the bank’s loans toserve their production and business needs.-VNA