By Noon, the Payment of the Basic Aid to Farmers Was Due, but Elga Held Money without Payments Having Been Made Due to a Technical Problem

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On Tuesday, due to a technical problem in the payment system, the contribution to ELGA was withheld before the amounts were credited.

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Yesterday's payments of farmers' aid through OPEKEPE ended in a fiasco, as ELGA proceeded with early deductions of insurance contributions without the aid having been paid first, with many beneficiaries finding themselves with zero balances in their accounts. In a statement the next morning, the Ministry of Rural Development and OPEKEPE attributed the problem to a "technical error" and assured that the amounts of the basic and redistributive aid…