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Since the implementation of the reform law in 2020, the monthly salary expenditure has increased from 895 billion dinars to 941 billion dinars, in other words, monthly salary expenditure has increased by 46 billion dinars.

According to the official statement of the Ministry of Finance, the total monthly salary expenditure of the Kurdistan Region is (941) billion dinars in 2023. However According to another statement that was issued by the Ministry of Finance in August 2020, 895 billion dinars were needed to pay the salaries of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in 2020.

The reform law was passed in the Kurdistan Parliament in January 2020 and then went into effect.
According to the first, second and third reports of the reform, a large number of two and three salaries have been cut and the salaries of parliamentarians, ministers and special ranks have been reduced.
According to the third report of the reform, the amount of (1 billion and 253 million) dinars has been returned to the government treasury.
Based on all the steps taken, salary expenditures should have decreased, but on the contrary they have increased, despite the lack of employment.