Will Kelberg become an unreliable program for people and sellers?
🔸 In Iran, changing the criteria for receiving electronic invoices and removing some households from the eligible list created confusion, as well as non-acceptance of invoices by some stores due to a miscalculation by the government, caused a lack of clarity in the implementation of this support program.
This confusion and ambiguity is in a situation where people's living conditions are getting worse day by day due to rampant inflation.
🔸 The issue of receiving goods in Iran, which has always been controversial, now and despite the high prices, is no longer limited to the amount of credit allocated to households or goods that can be purchased with goods receipts; Instead, more recent problems have created two additional challenges: first, who will still be subject to this support and second, will stores, especially small stores, have the necessary opportunity and motivation to accept merchandise? 🔸 Yaakov Andaish, the Minister of Cooperation, Labor and Welfare, announced in his latest announcement new criteria for identifying Kalberg beneficiaries, according to which the income ceiling for eligible households was reduced; So a household of one to three people must have an income of less than 20 million tomans a month to receive the goods, and an additional seven million tomans were set for each additional person in the household.
According to this government official, the process of measuring financial capacity is carried out by monitoring total income, banking transactions and the extent of household purchases, along with car and real estate ownership, and according to the new laws, if a family of three has three cars or three properties, for example, it will not be eligible to receive a certificate.
🔸 The deputy of the Ministry of Welfare for Cooperation announced, with the approval of new criteria for measuring the economic capacity of households, in the first phase one million households will be eliminated.
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