One of the main advantages of the digital ruble is the transparency of payments, said Dmitry Peskov, Special Representative of the Russian President for Digital and Technological Development, during a conversation with RIA Novosti. As he said, it can be useful, for example, within the limits of programs on struggle against poverty.
"All talks and government anti-poverty programmes are based on the need to move to a targeted model in order to help those who really need it and not those who are formally entitled to it," he explained.
According to Peskov, the digital ruble will make it possible to avoid a situation where a household consumes 200,000 rubles a month while claiming a poverty subsidy.
Speaking about how the problem of infrastructure for working with the digital ruble can be solved, the special representative noted that in Russia there are at least two entities that reach almost everyone: Sberbank and Russian Post.
"I quite assume that both pensions and other payments can take place in a situation where a grandmother in Ivanovo comes to the post office and an advanced girl on the device shows her everything and tells her how to do it," said Peskov.
Earlier it became known that testing of the digital ruble may begin in the first half of 2021.