According to a report issued by the Central Bank of Kuwait from January 2017 to the end of June 2022, checks (cheques) worth 426 million dinars were bounced due to lack of bank balance, and 45% of the value of these checks worth 192.7 million dinars was attributed to the Covid-19 pandemic, especially from January 2020 to the end of last June. . But officials report that since the start of the pandemic, the number of bounced checks and their clients have declined.

022 The data showed that the number of bounced checks was the highest from July to the end of December, with a value of about 82.8 million dinars, which accounted for 19.4% of the total value of bounced checks. It was worth 44 million dinars in 2018 and ranked third in the second half of the same year with checks worth 42.1 million dinars, fourth and fifth in the period from July to December 2019 with a value of 37.6 million dinars. From January to June 2017, checks worth 37.2 million dinars were received.

On the consumer side, the number of those who submitted checks without a balance is about 18,364,000 consumers, and there has been a marked decline in their numbers since the start of the Corona pandemic compared to before 2020. January to June 2018 saw the highest number of checks. The figures show that between January 2017 and the end of June 2022, about 4,117 accounts were closed as 12,268,000 checks were returned due to lack of balance for about 4,026 customers.