Finance Minister Khaled Al-Mabrouk met today, Tuesday, with the Chairman of the Management Committee of the General Authority of the Social Solidarity Fund, Mustafa Al-Juaibi, and confirmed that the Ministry of Finance, at the invitation of the Prime Minister of the Government of National Unity, Abdul Hamid Dbeibeh to stand on the needs of the Fund and solve its financial problems and to know the main reasons that prevented paying basic pensioners’ salaries on time.
Al-Mabrouk announced the payment of salaries for the months of June and July, in addition to the month of August, to the basic pensioners during the next week, in the presence of the directors of the specialized technical departments and offices, explaining all the difficulties regarding the depth of the fund.
He reviewed the reports of the Revenue Department of the Fund and the failure of some parties to pay the accumulated obligations in his favor, in addition to searching for mechanisms for investment sources to finance the Fund to fulfill its obligations towards its beneficiaries from the basic pensioners, and it was agreed to hold regular meetings between the Ministry of Finance and the General Authority Management Committee.