The Ministry of Economy and Finance said yesterday that the implementation of the Single Wage Table (TSU) will have a budget impact of 9.2 billion meticais in the first six months. 

According to the Deputy Minister of Economy and Finance, Carla Alexandra, who was speaking to the media after the weekly meeting of the Council of Ministers at the Presidency of the Republic, the sum, of 9.2 billion meticais, was duly framed in the Social Economic Plan and in the State Budget.

At issue are "inconsistencies" detected in the first month of application of the new Single Wage Scale for the State, flaws that led the Government to stop the full implementation of the new payment procedure for civil servants.

However, the vice-minister assured that in the public accounts, there is room to implement the new Single Wage Scale and the sector is already working to overcome the verified constraints.

"In considering these concerns, it was understood that it would be better to apply the payment of salaries [using the TSU] only for those employees who are at salary level 1C," which are the employees who received the minimum wage, which has now risen from 4,656 meticais to 8,756, explained the governor, recalling that the workers who were not covered this month will merit payments, as soon as possible, with retroactive effect.

The new Single Wage Scale for civil servants has 21 levels, ranging from 8,756 to 165,758 meticais, instead of 103 steps, as was the case previously.

According to data from the Directorate of Public Accounting advanced at the beginning of the month, about 306 thousand employees, 80% out of a total of 382,728 active state employees, were already framed and in a position to receive salaries according to the criteria defined in the new salary scale.

The annual impact of the application of the new instrument is estimated at 19.6 billion meticais, according to data from the Ministry of Economy and Finance.