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The Ministry of Finance is forced to restrict spending due to a lack of funds. As a result, in the public sector of the economy there may be delays in salary payments. This was announced by Finance Minister Serhiy Marchenko at a meeting of the Verkhovna Rada committee.
- We are forced to take measures to restrict spending... Everything depends on how funds are arriving to the unified treasury account. I do not rule out that there may be delays, — he said. - I hope that delays in salary payments will not occur, because that would be a financial catastrophe. But such a possibility exists.
He also noted that the Ministry of Finance does not exclude monetization of the budget. This, accordingly, is devaluation of the hryvnia, inflation, and other negative consequences, the minister stressed. Monetization of the budget refers to money printing by the National Bank, as it happened at the start of the large-scale war when state budget revenues sharply declined.
- We will respond accordingly. But it should be understood that we will lose the ability to communicate with international creditors, — he noted.
According to him, the ministry has prepared two kinds of measures. It is proposed to postpone less urgent expenditures to December. This does not affect social spending, clarifies Marchenko.
- We have prepared appropriate regulations on how we will act during a period of constrained liquidity. First of all, we will fund the security and defense sector. As soon as we have additional funding sources, we will fund the rest of the expenditures, — Marchenko said.
This will apply to all budgets, including local ones, he noted. Any construction programs, including social ones, will be suspended until there is sufficient liquidity to finance them, Marchenko added.
4 In September, Marchenko stated that Ukraine faces a difficult budgetary situation since the start of the full-scale war in 2022 year. Consequently, the government may temporarily delay certain payments.
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