Starting this year, Russians can take advantage of their money, seemingly lost forever. It is about the contributions of the Soviet period. Up to 2020, you can cash out savings accounts, which were issued on June 20, 1991.

In this case, the depositor should not have closed the account before the end of the year. True, there is one "but". It is important that before that the customer of the bank does not receive compensation or reimburses the loss not completely. However, according to the head of the Center for Financial Literacy of the Higher School of Economics Nikolai Berzon, to return the amount that the Soviet citizen once invested is unrealistic. "The state's obligations to depositors, valued in special debt rubles, are 42.76 trillion rubles. In 2018 year. on their repayment from the budget allocated 5.5 billion rubles. If the calculation will go at such a rate, it will take 7775 years, "the expert quotes the weekly" Arguments and Facts ".

The maximum payout on which depositors from the past are entitled to calculate is the amount in Soviet rubles multiplied by three. This is reported by the "Fifth Channel". Money is born born before 1945 inclusive. The rest will have to be satisfied with two-fold compensation. In addition to this, within the limits of 6 thousand rubles can get to the hands of relatives of the deceased after 2001 depositors who never managed to use the put money. No matter when the account was closed.