Economy News – Baghdad
The Ministry of Finance announced on Sunday the release of the salaries of employees of the Kurdistan Region for the month of November.
The ministry said in a statement, seen by “Economy News”, that “the Minister of Finance, Taif Sami Mohammed, received a delegation from the Kurdistan Regional Government headed by the Minister of Finance, Awat Janab Nouri, Omid Sabah, the President of the Council’s Court, Amang Rahim, Secretary of the Council, Fares Issa, Head of the Regional Representation, Abdul Hakim Khosrow from the Follow-up and Coordination Department, Rabaz Abbas Mahmoud, Advisor to the Ministry of Finance, Kofan Tahseen, Director General of Accounting, Abu Bakr Abdullah, Director General of Budget, Maryam Othman, Director General of Retirement, and Abdullah Ramadan known as a financial expert. In order to discuss the salaries of employees and retirees of the region.”
She added that “the meeting witnessed the agreement to send a technical delegation from the Accounting Department of the Federal Ministry of Finance to the Ministry of Finance in the regional government in order to help them amend the monthly audit balances related to salary and retirement disbursements in accordance with the Generalization of the Accounting Department No. (2421) on 30/1/2024.”
She pointed out that “based on the directives of the Prime Minister, the Accounting Department has taken what is necessary to launch the salaries of the region’s employees for the month of November, starting from today’s date, provided that the rest of the treatments and observations are completed in coordination with the ministerial team.”
She added that “the agreement included making the necessary transfers to address the financial excesses associated with retirees’ receivables. Amounting to (430) billion dinars, based on the provisions of Articles (5/I) and (77/I) of the Federal General Budget Law No. (13) for the years (2023, 2024 and 2025), and based on the directives of the Prime Minister, the rest of the observations are addressed in coordination with the technical ministerial team within ten days, starting today, December 15. In addition to reviewing the work of the committee formed under Diwani Order No. 24660, which requires the presence of representatives of the region to the said committee.
The agreement obliged, according to the statement, the region to “disburse the salary dues for the month of October financed by the Accounting Department, and to continue discussions and follow-up with the Committee of Diwani Order No. 24660, to study the issue of the inclusion of retirees of the region in the State Employees’ Retirement Law of 2019.”
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