Al-Rafidain bank grants 300,000 loans to employees

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Al-Rafidain bank granted 300,000 loans to employees and pensioners and 40,000 facilitated loans to fight the unemployment in cooperation with the ministry of social affairs, the director of the bank said Friday. “The bank gave loans to around 300,000 employees and 40,000 facilitated loans to unemployed people in cooperation with the social affairs ministry,” Abdulhussein Abdulazim al-Yasseri told IraqiNews.com news agency. “The bank started working on the loans program to establish special houses for employees and pensioners,” he added, noting that the number of families included in the program reached 4,000 families, each one was granted 50 million Iraqi dinars. SH (P) 1