State budget adjustment for 2025 approved by Government

The cabinet of ministers approved today the draft law on the adjustment of the state budget for this year. The initiative stipulates that state budget revenues will decrease by 135.7 million lei and amount to 75,796.8 million lei, while expenses will increase by 169 million lei, reaching a total of 94,007.8 million lei.

By promoting the state budget adjustment for 2025, the following main issues are proposed to be addressed: ensuring allocations for the payment of salary rights both within institutions financed from the state budget and from local budgets; ensuring the necessary funds to cover electricity bills until the end of the year and monetary payment for the current month of November, as well as other social benefits; ensuring necessary allocations for certain budgetary institutions to function properly until the end of the year; revising expenses and resources within externally funded projects.

Finance Minister Andrian Gavriliță presented the most important provisions of the project at the Government meeting.


“About 1 billion lei will ensure covering all personnel expenses, including transfers to local budgets. At the same time, the initiative aims to supplement the vulnerability reduction fund so that during the winter period we have the payments for vulnerable individuals secured, monetary payment, and also complete the compensation on the electricity bill. At the same time, 360 million lei will go into the social insurance budget, to ensure that all benefits are covered. On the other hand, we have reductions of about 700 million lei, which unfortunately cannot be absorbed by the end of the year, giving us the possibility to properly cover the necessary issues we have discussed,” stated the minister.


Thus, the draft law provides for increased allocations, determined by expenditure priorities and based on deficiencies identified by the authorities, specifically for:


	
transfers to the state social insurance budget - 824.9 million lei, of which 463.5 million lei for granting energy compensation as cash payment
	
transfers to local budgets - 909.7 million lei, predominantly for personnel expenses
	
granting electricity compensation - 232 million lei
	
personnel expenses within institutions financed from the state budget - 1010.9 million lei, of which 340.6 million lei
	
implementation of the National Forest Expansion and Rehabilitation Program - 60 million lei
	
ensuring the provisions of the normative framework regarding the remuneration of public education institutions operating under financial-economic self-management under the Ministry of Education and Research - 58.7 million lei, of which through redistributions - 31 million lei
	
compensation of transport costs for persons with disabilities - 15.0 million lei
	
voluntary amalgamation fund of localities within the public administration reform - 4.7 million lei.


At the same time, the draft law provides for allocation reductions, estimated based on the level of execution of budget expenditures, specifically for:


	
projects funded from external sources - 717.1 million lei
	
state debt servicing - 416.2 million lei, of which 183.3 million lei for internal state debt and 232.9 million lei for external state debt
	
mitigation of budgetary risks - 400 million lei
	
ensuring the provisions of the regulatory framework regarding remuneration in the budgetary sector - 225.9 million lei
	
financial security of economic reform measures according to the Economic Growth Plan for the Republic of Moldova - 145 million lei
	
Government's emergency funds - 80 million lei
	
National Environment Fund - 60 million lei
	
First Home program - 55 million lei
	
civil compensations - 30 million lei.


As a result of the budget adjustment, the budget deficit will increase by 304.7 million lei and will amount to 18,211.0 million lei.

The project is to be submitted to Parliament for examination.