{"id":17168,"date":"2026-08-14T12:40:11","date_gmt":"2026-08-14T16:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/?p=17168"},"modified":"2026-08-14T14:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-08-14T18:48:13","slug":"bandec-announces-payment-schedule-and-new-initiatives-for-retirees-in-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/bandec-announces-payment-schedule-and-new-initiatives-for-retirees-in-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"BANDEC Announces Payment Schedule and New Initiatives for Retirees in Guant\u00e1namo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-16792 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/BANDEC-1-e1783012231423.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" \/>Guantanamo- The Provincial Directorate of the Bank of Credit and Commerce (BANDEC) in Guant\u00e1namo Province has confirmed that pension check payments for August will commence on August 18, following the usual schedule, and will continue through early September. A prioritized five-day service window will begin next Tuesday to facilitate this process.<\/p>\n<p>J\u00fader Ortiz Gonz\u00e1lez, BANDEC\u2019s deputy accounting director, also announced ongoing efforts to contract local economic actors as authorized financial agents. This initiative aims to enable retirees to receive cash payments directly at participating business establishments, enhancing convenience and reducing long wait times at bank branches.<\/p>\n<p>While participation by these economic actors is voluntary, the director emphasized the social responsibility involved, highlighting the benefits of bringing payment services closer to communities. This approach seeks to minimize travel and waiting periods for pensioners.<\/p>\n<p>Ortiz Gonz\u00e1lez outlined incentives for businesses joining the program, including financial bonuses per transaction, priority banking services, expedited loan processing, and preferential access to cash resources for their operations\u2014contingent upon liquidity assessments.<\/p>\n<p>This measure supports broader goals under the 176 economic and social reforms approved by the National Assembly of People\u2019s Power in June, modernizing Cuba\u2019s banking system by integrating both state-owned and private entities as banking agents.<\/p>\n<p>Although the contracting process is ongoing and the number of participating businesses remains unspecified, check payments will continue as the primary pension disbursement method for retirees in Guant\u00e1namo during this transition period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guantanamo- The Provincial Directorate of the Bank of Credit and Commerce (BANDEC) in Guant\u00e1namo Province has confirmed that pension check payments for August will commence on August 18, following the usual schedule, and will continue through early September. A prioritized five-day service window will begin next Tuesday to facilitate this process. J\u00fader Ortiz Gonz\u00e1lez, BANDEC\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-economy","category-guantanamo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17168"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17168\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17170,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17168\/revisions\/17170"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.radioguantanamo.icrt.cu\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}