Citizens Receive 5,000 Lira in Support for Hearing Aids, While Contractors Receive Billions of Lira in Guaranteed Payments: ‘Hearing Aids Are a Necessity, Not a luxury.’

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While citizens receive 4-5 thousand lira in subsidies for hearing aids, the prices of these devices on the market reach 50 thousand, even 100 thousand lira. The opposition called for, "No citizen should be condemned to silence due to economic hardship." On the other hand, billions of liras are being paid to contracting firms under the guarantee payments scheme. The opposition pointed out that a total of 370.4 billion liras was transferred to con…