Suspected of abuse, payment execution postponed by Paco Emergency

Deputy Minister of Finance and Transfers Ilir Aliu, in an interview for the EO, said the projected number of 120 thousand workers to be left without salaries has increased to 170 thousand.

He said the ATK commission is verifying these abuses, so the first means to be shared with the month's salary will be delayed.

But, he said that once these verifications are approved on the commission, payment will be made automatically.

“Paco is starting to be executed earlier and it is a continuation, up until now 37m euros have been executed. There were a lot of them that applied. We've seen through the stops we've made, 90 thousand employees will be infected according to codes that won't continue to work. In an indirect way, some where the initial amount of 120 thousand workers remain without pay due to stoppages, unfortunately, this number has grown 170 thousand workers who have applied”.

It's a pity that there are those who have proven to take unfair advantage of the measures at this time of pandemic. This has slowed the work of the ATK commission, which is proceeding a large number of requirements. After they are approved to the commission, they are sent to the treasury and automatically is paid”, Ali said.

Furthermore, Deputy Minister Aliu also spoke of the damage that Coronavirus has done to the country, although he said it was too early to talk about accurate figures.

But he said that according to the indicator analysis, the country has suffered daily losses of 5m to 6m euros, rather than 10m euros a day reported, EO reports.

It's early to say that the damage caused by the pandemic, of course, has affected state revenues. I'm hearing different cases where the number of up to 10 million increases where daily losses are spent. I don't agree with such prognosis, because we know that customs revenues have dropped to 40 million, ATK's revenues have been delayed for a while later to be recorded”.

“Consum of electricity for industry has dropped by 29 percent and has been raised for household 14 percent”.

When we analyze all the indicators, we can assume we have an economic downturn, but not exactly. Day losses have been 5 to 6 million no more”, Aliu said