Moldova's state budget to be rectified

Chisinau, 1 July /MOLDPRES/ - The government today took responsibility for the amendment of the state budget for 2020. The amendment sees the increase in the budget revenues by 52.4 million lei and of the expenses – by more than one billion lei. According to the cabinet, the budget deficit will also grow by 1.231 billion lei.  

Under the draft approved by assuming responsibility, most money is seen for providing a one-off allowance worth 700 lei to pensioners and other social categories with incomes lower than 3,000 lei, salary increases for the medical sector employees and the growth of the agriculture subsidization fund by 100 million lei.

The amendments proposed to the draft are provided to the following fields: social protection – 489.6 million lei, health care – 428.1 million lei, state service with general purpose – 195 million lei, economic sector – 160.5 million lei.

The deficit of the national public budget will be of about 17.5 billion lei and the government plans to cover it from loans and grants from abroad and from additional issuance of state transferable securities.  

The other drafts, for which the cabinet of ministers took responsibility, deal with the increase in physicians’ salaries and providing of one-off allowance to the low-income people.