Finance Committee: Salaries are secured in the 2024 budget and there is no financial crisis in Iraq, 29 MARCH

 Finance Committee: Salaries are secured in the 2024 budget and there is no financial crisis in Iraq

Baghdad Today – Baghdad

The Parliamentary Finance Committee, this evening, Thursday (March 28, 2024), reassured employees and retirees regarding their salaries in the financial budget for the year 2024.

The head of the committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, told the official agency, followed by “Baghdad Today,” “We are awaiting the arrival of the 2024 budget schedules.”

He added, "The salaries of employees, retirees, and the protection network are secured in the 2024 budget."

Al-Atwani stressed, "There is no financial crisis in Iraq."

The head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Atwan Al-Atwani, announced yesterday, Wednesday, that “the total budget for 2024 amounted to about 228 trillion dinars.”

While the Minister of Planning, Muhammad Tamim, said during his hosting of the Finance Committee yesterday that the government committee responsible for reviewing and auditing these tables is working to reduce the deficit amounting to 80 trillion dinars because it is considered a large deficit.   LINK