In order to encourage the retired and pensioners to conduct more transactions on the accounts they collect their monthly payout, a new regulation is included in the BCRA’s financial education platform, #SaberEsCentral: Social Security Free Accounts.
This seeks to overcome the underuse of this kind of bank accounts and to promote the use of electronic means of payments, online banking, and mobile banking. This initiative has been designed for the retired and pensioners to adopt new financial skills for their own benefit in their daily life.
Thus, Anabela Gómez, senior analyst in the BCRA’s Financial Innovation area, together with the family of characters of #SaberEsCentral, clearly and simply explain how to avoid queuing at banks or service payment centers and carrying cash with ourselves.
#SaberEsCentral is a digital platform where the BCRA posts regulations promoting the use of bank accounts and electronic means of payment by financial consumers.
One of the main responsibilities of the BCRA is to provide users with tools and services that promote financial inclusion. #SaberEsCentral therefore becomes a key tool for making people develop their financial capabilities and, consequently, for contributing to economic development.
The new regulations posted on #SaberEsCentral are:
- Instant and free transfers
- Social security free accounts
- Opening of accounts for domestic staff
- Salary accounts opened by workers
- Social allowance accounts
- Simplified process for closing any type of accounts
- Current accounts for SAS corporations
- E-check deposits
