Ukrainian banks as of Wednesday issued 288 thousand cards, which will be charged compensation under the state program “National cashback”, said Deputy Prime Minister – Minister of Economy of Ukraine Yulia Sviridenko.
“For two days our partner banks (of the state program “National Cashback”) – it is, in fact, all the largest banks in our state, issued a total of 288 thousand cards,” she said on the air of the national telethon ‘United News’ on Wednesday.
According to Sviridenko, more than 600 manufacturers have already joined the state program, registering 63 thousand goods in the system.
“At the time of the launch of the program, nine retail chains have already credited cashback, somewhere around 40 more are in the process of joining,” the first deputy prime minister said.
She recalled that the cashback program started on September 2 in beta testing mode, which is tentatively to last about a month.
As reported, the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine at a meeting on August 20 approved the procedure for granting “National cashback”, according to which Ukrainians will be able to receive compensation for 10% of the cost of goods purchased by them. The maximum amount of cashback is 3 thousand UAH/month, the funds can be spent on medical and utility services, sports, movies, train tickets, donate to the AFU or buy war bonds.
