Sunday, February 19, 2017

"Disabled is reason ----" financial authorities, provided the first half of countermeasure



[Korea Jeongseon financial newspaper reporters] # Blind Mr. A visit behind the counter had a loan application to the Internet do not receive the loan was notified. When the loan process to proceed to the Internet I have not had a problem bank is aware of the fact that Mr. A had impaired loan that is not possible.

# Elementary school teacher Mr. B apply for group insurance with students learning experience before going to the insurer, but the insurance was rejected for being students with developmental disabilities.

Mr. deaf C # application, but a family card issued by the credit card company the grounds that the voice was impossible for identification cards issued by the refusal.

Impaired loans and insurance like the above example, the Financial Services Commission to improve the discrimination experienced by the card issuing process, it said that 19 days to announce a "comprehensive measures for improving access to finance for people with disabilities' in the first half of this year.

Finance Committee before the financial disability survey used the Task Force (TF) coming in March configure the unreasonable targets people with disabilities, and financial institutions decided to investigate practices and difficulties.

Financial situation, which is the last in April 2008 tried to solve the difficulties people with disabilities to use financial instruments to enforce the Disability Discrimination Act is still unreasonable discriminatory practices occurred in a number of areas such as credit card issuers, insurance.

In fact, if you received a disability insurance contract when responding to discrimination amounted to 45.4%, private health insurance is much lower than the subscription rate of people with disabilities (75.8%) to 42.5% of non-disabled.

Imjongryong Finance Chairman promote the survey for the last 17 days open disabilities organizations in Yeouido yirum center, in meetings of the finance related agencies officials' banking, insurance, investments, etc. All types of financial products, sales channels for each service satisfaction and practices such as discrimination plan said "pin Tech (fin-tech), etc. to encourage improvements nowhere to be minimal inconvenience to take advantage of new financial services nagagetda" he said.

The disability-related organizations attending the day meeting insurance limits and improve discriminatory practices and disabled dependents trust provisions of the Disabled amendment, the ARS authentication improvements, automation devices for wheelchairs Handicap (ATM) access to enhanced, including for the deaf monetary authorities He suggested on.

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