According to National Treasurer, Alberto Perdomo Piña, speaking on the program D’Agenda and interviewed by Héctor Herrera Cabral, the Dominican state pays RD$12 billion a month to employees of the central government and decentralized institutions. He explained that these figures include the salary increases for the police, teachers, physicians, and from August 2016, members of the military.
Perdomo went on to say that around 50% of the funds go to the Ministry of Education. He rejected the notion that Medina had a padded government payroll. Perdomo explained that since 2012, the payroll had only increased by 15% and that included pay rises in many sectors, which the government had provided to improve the quality of life and as recognition of the great work these people did to the benefit of the Dominican state.
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Al Momento
4 July 2017
