The de facto administration’s Ministry of Finance has issued sweeping directives to provincial finance offices ordering an immediate and indefinite suspension of salary payments for civilian and military public sector employees.
According to internal administrative sources cited by The Information Day, provincial finance departments across all 34 provinces were instructed on Monday, October 25 (3 Aqrab), to immediately freeze the processing and bank transfer of monthly payrolls.
Indefinite Delays and Budget Deficits
The directive marks a critical escalation in the de facto administration’s compounding fiscal difficulties, with ministry insiders acknowledging significant liquidity bottlenecks:
- Postponement to Late Winter: Sources within the de facto Ministry of Finance indicated that salary disbursements have been officially pushed back until at least the 10th solar month (Jadi/Capricorn), leaving hundreds of thousands of public workers without pay for consecutive months.
- Impact Across Civilian and Military Cadres: The freeze applies indiscriminately across civil service ministries, public education, healthcare personnel, and security units, removing the baseline primary income for hundreds of thousands of urban households.
- Compounding Revenue Deficits: Economic analysts attribute the total suspension to diminishing tax revenues, international banking isolation, and the diversion of state resources toward central security structures and religious institutions.
Deepening Economic Vulnerability
Public sector employees across urban centers—already struggling with previous wage reductions and rising living costs—now face total financial paralysis. Many civil servants rely exclusively on state salaries to purchase winter heating fuel, food staples, and basic medical supplies.
Humanitarian monitors warn that the prolonged withholding of state wages will further depress domestic market demand, accelerate municipal poverty, and force thousands of civil service families to rely on emergency humanitarian assistance or irregular migration channels.