According to a reliable source, the Federal Ministry of Finance will transfer the Kurdistan Region employees’ salaries due for September from Baghdad within the next three days.
“oblige Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and the President of the Kurdistan Regional Government, Masrour Barzani, to localize the salaries of Kurdistan Region employees at outlets spread across the region or banks open and licensed by the Central Bank of Iraq, and to deduct them from the region’s budget for this year and the coming years,” the Federal Court ruled on February 21.
In addition to requiring all supervisory bodies to audit the data of Kurdistan employees, the Federal Court also obligated the Iraqi government to release funding for the region’s salaries following their settlement and to refrain from financing employees’ salaries through loans.
She emphasized that “the decision to localize the salaries of the Kurdistan Region’s employees is a final and binding decision” and that “the obligation to submit the monthly budget of the region’s employees to the Federal Ministry of Finance.”
