Drw media

(17) Salaries have not been paid

(44) Salaries have been paid with deductions and salary arrears

Both the eighth and ninth cabinets of the Kurdistan Regional Government owe more than (23) trillion dinars due to (non-payment of salaries, salary arrears, salary deductions) in the past 10 years.

Last year 2023, the government did not pay the salaries of October, November, and December.

This year 2024, the October salary is being distributed at the end of the year.

During the past 10 years (2015-2024), the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) has not paid salaries on time and also, owes a large part of the salaries of the employees:

Out of (120) months from (2015 -2024):

- (17) salaries have not been paid in full

- (34) salaries have been paid in arrears

- (10) salaries have been paid with (21%) deduction.

- A total of (61) months of (unpaid salaries, and arrears and deductions). That is (51%) of the salaries in the past 10 years.

- Total (59) months salary paid in full. That is only (49%) of all salaries in the past 10 years.

• The government owes 23 trillion dinars to Salaried employees.

• The debt of salary promotion of the KRG civil servants (halted due to the KRG’s financial crisis) is about (6) trillion dinars.

The total debt of the government is 29 trillion dinars.