Ministry of Economy and Finance denies CDD report on lack of funds to pay salaries

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Ministry of Economy and Finance denies CDD report on lack of funds to pay salaries

6:28 CAT | 13 Jun 2023

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Mozambique’s Ministry of Economy and Finance has denied reports according to which the state has no money to pay civil service salaries up to the end of the current year.

The civil society organisation, Centre for Democracy and Development wrote this Sunday that the public administration is experiencing troubled times, with the state facing potential difficulties paying salaries until the end of the year.

But Ministry of Economy and Finance spokesman Alfredo Muthombene told Radio Mozambique that delays in the payment of wages are due to ongoing readjustments in the law approving the Single Salary Table (TSU), not lack of funds.

“The Mozambican state has been paying salaries every month, as scheduled,” Muthombene said.

“What we have been seeing is that with these changes to Law No.5/2022 of February 14th on the Single Salary Table, there are some delays on the part of the sectors in giving some conformity to the salary sheet, and that causes the payment of salaries to happen on the last day foreseen in the calendar, which is not usual, therefore the 30th, but in one way or another [payment] always happens and every month until now – we are in June – we have been able to pay salaries in the normal way,” he explained.

The government however recently reported that the Single Salary Table had caused the State wage bill to soar from 11 to 18 billion meticais, an amount considered unacceptable.

Readjustments are therefore being made [to the TSU] in order to re-establish a remuneration baseline of around 14 billion meticais per month.

Source: Rãdio Moçambique