Payment of deducted salaries of civil servants to commence in July

Civil Service Commission (CSC) has agreed with Ministry of Finance to provide civil servants with the amounts which were deducted from their salaries in 2009, in instalments from July 2012.

CSC said that the amounts deducted from salaries from January to December 2010 will be paid in 12 instalments, and will be completed by the end of June 2013. The respective CSC employees will receive one twelfth of the total deducted salaries every month from July onwards.

If a recipient of this money dies, his inheritors will receive this money as a lump sum payment. If a recipient dies after the commencement of receipt of money in July 2012, the remaining amount will be paid to his inheritors as a lump sum payment.

In October 2009, salaries were deducted by citing a ‘special’ economic situation in the country. Despite the government indicating that the salaries will be reverted to their original amounts after some time, and a court order issued later to do so, this was never done. The former government stated that it was impossible to return this money.

The amount of Rf 443.7m was not included in the annual budget for the repayment of deducted salaries of civil servants, despite CSC’s request to do so.

Minister of Finance Abdullah Jihad said that the deducted salaries can be paid from the ‘recurrent expenses’ assigned for each office in the budget.

“We will leave it up to each individual office to pay this money. There should be no problem if they settle it using the recurrent expenses,” Jihad said.

Budget total amounts to Rf 17.1b, while government income is Rf 11.48b. The income is estimated to be short of about Rf 2b. The government has made the decision to submit the budget to the parliament for revision.