Baghdad – INA
The head of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Haitham al-Jubouri, announced the abolition of the salary deduction for employees and retirees.
Al-Jubouri said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) that "the Finance Committee voted on the draft budget for 2021, including the abolition of the clause withholding the salaries of state employees and retirees, reducing the budget of the three presidencies by 20% and reducing the total deficit from 47% to 19% meaning from 76 One trillion dinars to 25 trillion dinars.”
Al-Jubouri added that "the draft budget also included including the dues of lecturers, contracts and employees, increasing the amounts of petrodollars for oil-producing governorates from 500 billion to one trillion dinars, and increasing the amounts allocated to the social protection network over what is allocated for it in the year 2020 by one and a half trillion dinars to increase the number of families covered by the grant with an increase in value The same grant also included allocating funds to complete the production lines of large factories in the Ministry of Industry and allocating an amount to compensate those affected by changing the exchange rate from the private sector to ensure the continuation of projects at the request of the Ministry of Planning and the supervision of the Federal Office of Financial Supervision.