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The number of delinquent debtors in the country decreased by a significant 8.5 percent in August compared to July, and now equals its lowest level since September 2018, according to a new report from Equifax.
Last month, the total of 4,927,111 people decreased to 4,507,000, managing to move away from the 5 million, which in large part would have been affected by the pandemic.
Meanwhile, the total delinquent amount fell 6.2 percent, since the clients that came out of this condition in August were 545 thousand (increase of 139 percent), more than double that registered in the rest of the year, according to published Pulse.
Among those who stopped being delinquent, it is distinguished 27 percent (147,122 people) benefited from the so-called “Chao Dicom” Law, which prohibits the publication of documents associated with educational institutions and the remaining 73 percent (397,434 people), which are no longer so for having made a payment in sectors other than education. Therefore, in this group the effect of the withdrawal of 10 percent of pension funds is reflected.
If the effect of the education blur that gives the total drop of 8.5 percent is isolated, delinquent debtors fell 5.5 percent, a rate that continues to attract attention compared to the other major decrease of this 2020, of 0.6 percent in July.
In the case of the 73 percent who were delinquent in sectors other than education before August, their debts came mostly from retail, which had the most important drop in defaulters (13 percent), with a total that went from 3,450,000 to 2,999,000 in one month.
The next sector that concentrates the most defaulters is banking, which registered a 9 percent drop (2,143,000 in July and 1,948,000 in August); then there are the financial activities and insurance, which marked a decline of 2.9 percent (from 1,015,000 to 985,000 people) and the Health, which decreased 10.8 percent.
