CHP Gürer: 'Retired Bayram bonus rushes hikes while rushing'

Pension bonus melts against inflation
 
CHP Niğde Deputy Omer Fethi Gurer, retired Bayram bonuses is insufficient to increase, the government ignored the retirees, he said. Gürer criticized the regulation of 1000 TL made by the President to the Bayram bonus, "Retired feast bonuses are rushing to gallop," he said.
 
Gürer said that a victim can be taken with the feast bonus determined as 1000 TL in 2018, but despite the increase made today, retirees were not a sacrifice, but not even one budget. Bayram bonus should be increased to the minimum wage level argued that Gürer, the Parliament to offer a law proposal to the Parliament, but the government remained insensitive to this proposal, he said.
 
Individual debts reached a record level
 
Emphasizing that the debt burden of citizens due to the economic crisis increases day by day, Gürer said that individual credit and credit card debts increased by 78.8 billion pounds in the week of 21-28 February and reached a total of 4 trillion 206 billion pounds. Total balance of individual loans to 2 trillion 209 billion pounds, credit card debts 1 trillion 997 billion pounds, he said.
 
In 2024, citizens pay 856 billion pounds for bank credit cards and consumer loans, indicating that the interest payment only in January reached 89 billion pounds and interest burden is expected to exceed 1 trillion pounds in 2025, he said.
 
303 thousand people were executed in a month
 
Emphasizing that the number of those who cannot pay their debts increased rapidly, Gürer said that 178 thousand 382 people were taken to the individual loan debt in January 2025 and that 194 thousand 163 people could not pay the credit card debt. Gürer said that these figures increased by 51 %and 65 %compared to the same period last year and said that a total of 303 thousand 367 people were executed.
 
According to risk center data, the total number of debtors in the follow -up of banks and asset management companies approaches 4 million Gürer, banks 2 million 530 thousand 873, asset management companies follow 2 million 71 thousand 96 people, he said.
 
SMEs and the agricultural sector are also in debt
 
Gürer, the economic crisis also affected SMEs negatively, stating that the loan debts to the banking sector increased by 114.8 billion pounds in January, 4 trillion 487 billion pounds, he said. SME credit debts falling on legal follow -up increased by 5.2 billion pounds to 91.7 billion pounds and a total of 280 thousand SME credit account stressed that the follow -up.
 
Stating that the agricultural sector is also under the burden of debt, Gürer said that the debts of farmers to banks increased by 21.1 billion pounds in January to 890 billion pounds. 705 billion pounds to public banks, private banks, 184 billion pounds indebted farmers, the legal monitoring of the amount of loan reached 4.5 billion pounds, he said.
 
Execution files exceeded 22 million
 
Gürer announced that the enforcement files are increasing day by day and the number of new execution files opened over 1 January - 7 March 2025 increased by 6.5 %compared to the same period last year and reached 1 million 948 thousand. Stating that the total number of existing enforcement files increased to 22 million 686 thousand, Gürer said that the number of citizens who are enforcement due to the economic crisis increased rapidly.
 
 
 
Source: Cumha - Cumhur News Agency