“Despite the introduction from September 1, 2020 of extrajudicial bankruptcy of citizens whose debt ranges from 50 thousand to 500 thousand rubles, the number of bankruptcy cases has almost doubled - from 74.6 thousand in 2020 to 146 thousand. in 2021," TASS quoted him as saying.

Earlier it was reported that the Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Tourism and Tourism Infrastructure Development Natalya Kostenko prepared a bill according to which, in the event of the death or disability of the borrower, the loans taken by him to banks must be reimbursed by insurance companies.

Olga Daineko, an expert at the Center for Financial Literacy NIFI of the Ministry of Finance of Russia, recalled ways to pay off loans.