The number of persistent non-payers last year reached 8.6 million. These are the data of the Federal Bailiffs Service, which Izvestia got acquainted with.
This figure has become the maximum for the entire period of maintaining service statistics – since 2012 (then it was 2.2 million). Also in 2021, an acceleration in the growth rate of the number of citizens whose debts will be forcibly written off by a court decision was recorded.
Over the year, the number of persistent non-payers increased by 1.6 million against last year’s 1.2 million. Earlier, in 2020, 7 million such cases were opened, in 2019 – 5.8 million, in 2018 – 4.4 million , in 2017 – 3.2 million, etc.
The bailiffs plan to recover from the Russians on the enforcement cases started last year, debts totaling 1.1 trillion rubles. This is 40 billion more than in 2020. Previously, the maximum growth of this indicator was observed in 2019 compared to 2018 (+65 billion), as well as in the crisis year 2015 by 2014 (+195 billion), according to statistics.
The FSSP told Izvestia that in 2021 the amount of debt collected from individuals in favor of credit institutions amounted to 185.2 billion rubles, in 2020 – 142.8 billion. According to the service, the largest number of persistent non-payers was registered in the Krasnodar Territory (582 thousand), Bashkiria (452 thousand), Krasnoyarsk Territory (390 thousand), Sverdlovsk (343 thousand) and Chelyabinsk (323.6 thousand) regions.
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With too much debt: the number of persistent defaulters reached a record 8.6 million
Source: IZ
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