{
  "id": 18627923,
  "title": "UAE gratuity rules: Can banks take your end-of-service benefits to repay loans?",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/11/07/uae-gratuity-rules-can-banks-take-your-end-of-service-benefits-to",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-11-07T02:30:00.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Gulf News",
    "slug": "gulf-news",
    "url": "https://gulfnews.com/living-in-uae/ask-us/uae-gratuity-bank-loan-end-of-service-benefits-1.500739113"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Dubai: Leaving a job in the UAE does not necessarily mean employees can immediately access their full end-of-service gratuity , particularly if they have an outstanding personal loan. Banks may freeze or use gratuity payments to recover outstanding debts, even when borrowers have not missed an instalment. However, legal experts say there are limits to what banks can withhold, and employees may…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}