In the first three months of budgetary restrictions imposed by President Danilo Medina, the government is reporting a surplus of RD$10.8 billion. Income during September, October and November 2012 totaled a little over RD$93 billion and expenditure was limited to RD$82.6 billion. El Caribe reports that this is due to the forced reduction of expenditure mandated by Medina at the start of his administration in August. In the first complete month of his administration the government had a surplus of RD$2.7 billion and by November 2012 the surplus reached RD$4.2 billion. The Budget Office says that each month about one third of expenditure went on salaries and labor, another third went to financial services and the final third was spent on government projects and other expenditures.