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Georgia’s pensioners hamstrung by crippling debt

Georgia’s pensioners hamstrung by crippling debt

Paradoxically, Georgia’s poorest citizens – its elderly – have the easiest access to credit. But there is a catch. Elderly Georgians, perhaps the poorest category of people in the country, paradoxically have the easiest access to bank credit: In an unstable economic environment, government retirement benefits are one stable, albeit small, form of income that can serve as security for a loan