Parliamentary Finance Committee: Pension salary deficit reaches 360 billion dinars and is increasing monthly
On Wednesday, Hussein Al-Daraji, a member of the parliamentary finance committee, revealed that there is a deficit in pension salaries amounting to 360 billion dinars, noting that it is increasing monthly.
Al-Daraji told Shafaq News Agency that the Finance Committee in the House of Representatives hosted, on Tuesday, the Director General of the National Retirement Authority to discuss the general and financial situation in the Authority, and it became clear through this hosting that there is a deficit in retirement salaries amounting to 360 billion dinars and increasing monthly.
He added that the number of retirees is about 3 million in Iraq, including 1.81 million civilian retirees and 1.221 million military retirees.
He explained that the rate of employees referred to retirement ranges between 7,500 and 8,500 employees per month, indicating that the Ministry of Finance supports maintaining the referral of employees to retirement when they reach the age of sixty, without changing this procedure.
The salary file in Iraq is suffering from financial pressures, as the past months have witnessed delays in the disbursement of salaries to government employees and retirees due to a lack of financial liquidity and a decline in revenues.
Iraq’s public finances are facing a growing gap between revenues and expenditures, as government data showed that the deficit between state revenues and expenditures reached about 30.4 trillion dinars during the first eight months of 2026.
Shafaq.com