Is the increase in public sector retirees’ salaries a legal entitlement?
I do not know how the finance minister says the following statement in his response to the House of Lords on the draft general budget law for 2024: (As for the increase in current expenditures, it came driven by entitlements that cannot be ignored, the most prominent of which is the natural increase in the salaries of workers and retirees, military and civilian…) My question to His Excellency the Minister Al-Asas: If we agree that there is an annual increase in the salaries of workers in the civil and military sectors, which is a natural and automatic increase, but the question posed; Are there natural and automatic annual increases entitled to the salaries of civilian and military retirees who retired in accordance with the provisions of the military and civil retirement laws…?! What I know is that the Social Security Law is the only retirement law that stipulated a regular annual increase for social security retirees linked to inflation or the annual growth rate of the average wages, whichever is lower, and this increase starts from May of each year. And social security has a budget completely independent of the state’s general budget, and its funds are not part of the public treasury funds, and therefore any increase that is approved for the salaries of social security retirees from all sectors, whether the public civil or military sector or the private sector and others, is borne by the social security treasury alone, and the public treasury of the state has nothing to do with it. Unless the minister allocated an item in the 2024 budget for an increase in the salaries of the state’s military and civilian retirees who retired in accordance with the military retirement law and the civil retirement law, which we never heard of in the budget speech. Unfortunately, the minister’s speech before the Lords is rhetorical and lacks accuracy.
Journalist and human rights activist / Musa Al-Sabehi
Is the increase in public sector retirees’ salaries a legal entitlement?
I do not know how the finance minister says the following statement in his response to the House of Lords on the draft general budget law for 2024: (As for the increase in current expenditures, it came driven by entitlements that cannot be ignored, the most prominent of which is the natural increase in the salaries of workers and retirees, military and civilian…) My question to His Excellency the Minister Al-Asas: If we agree that there is an annual increase in the salaries of workers in the civil and military sectors, which is a natural and automatic increase, but the question posed; Are there natural and automatic annual increases entitled to the salaries of civilian and military retirees who retired in accordance with the provisions of the military and civil retirement laws…?! What I know is that the Social Security Law is the only retirement law that stipulated a regular annual increase for social security retirees linked to inflation or the annual growth rate of the average wages, whichever is lower, and this increase starts from May of each year. And social security has a budget completely independent of the state’s general budget, and its funds are not part of the public treasury funds, and therefore any increase that is approved for the salaries of social security retirees from all sectors, whether the public civil or military sector or the private sector and others, is borne by the social security treasury alone, and the public treasury of the state has nothing to do with it. Unless the minister allocated an item in the 2024 budget for an increase in the salaries of the state’s military and civilian retirees who retired in accordance with the military retirement law and the civil retirement law, which we never heard of in the budget speech. Unfortunately, the minister’s speech before the Lords is rhetorical and lacks accuracy.
Journalist and human rights activist / Musa Al-Sabehi
Is the increase in public sector retirees’ salaries a legal entitlement?
I do not know how the finance minister says the following statement in his response to the House of Lords on the draft general budget law for 2024: (As for the increase in current expenditures, it came driven by entitlements that cannot be ignored, the most prominent of which is the natural increase in the salaries of workers and retirees, military and civilian…) My question to His Excellency the Minister Al-Asas: If we agree that there is an annual increase in the salaries of workers in the civil and military sectors, which is a natural and automatic increase, but the question posed; Are there natural and automatic annual increases entitled to the salaries of civilian and military retirees who retired in accordance with the provisions of the military and civil retirement laws…?! What I know is that the Social Security Law is the only retirement law that stipulated a regular annual increase for social security retirees linked to inflation or the annual growth rate of the average wages, whichever is lower, and this increase starts from May of each year. And social security has a budget completely independent of the state’s general budget, and its funds are not part of the public treasury funds, and therefore any increase that is approved for the salaries of social security retirees from all sectors, whether the public civil or military sector or the private sector and others, is borne by the social security treasury alone, and the public treasury of the state has nothing to do with it. Unless the minister allocated an item in the 2024 budget for an increase in the salaries of the state’s military and civilian retirees who retired in accordance with the military retirement law and the civil retirement law, which we never heard of in the budget speech. Unfortunately, the minister’s speech before the Lords is rhetorical and lacks accuracy.
Journalist and human rights activist / Musa Al-Sabehi
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The minister's words lack precision!!
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