Budget adjustment provides for redistribution of financial resources to cover pension and allowance payments, salary needs, supplement compensation fund

At today's meeting, the government approved amendments to 2025 State Budget Law. The amendments involve the redistribution of budgetary resources in three main areas: supplementing the Energy Vulnerability Reduction Fund, covering salary needs, especially for teachers, and allocating the necessary funds for the payment of allowances and other social measures. 

The Energy Vulnerability Reduction Fund will be supplemented with 706.6 million lei, so that we can provide assistance to more vulnerable population categories. 

Of this amount, 463.5 million lei will be used for thermal energy compensation in the form of monetary payments (through transfers to the state social insurance budget) and 232 million lei for compensation in electricity bills. The total amount of the Energy Vulnerability Reduction Fund in 2025 will be over 4.3 billion lei.

Significant financial allocations are earmarked to cover personnel expenses in state-funded institutions, amounting to over 1 billion lei, and through transfers to local budgets - over 914 million lei. This is mainly for salary payments in education. 

Additionally, resources amounting to 361.4 million lei will be transferred to the state social insurance budget, for the payment of social benefits.

At the same time, expenditures in externally funded projects have been reduced by about 717 million lei, based on estimates regarding the utilization of resources by the end of the current year. Meanwhile, available funds will be increased in projects aimed at modernizing agriculture.

Thus, state budget revenues will total 75.79 billion lei, expenditures will total 94 billion lei, and the budget balance will be about 18 billion lei.  

Amendments have also been made to the State Social Insurance Budget Law for 2025. The state social insurance budget increases by 903 million lei, up to 49.39 billion lei. 

According to Minister of Labor and Social Protection Natalia Plugaru, the additional resources are aimed at supporting the payment of pensions and allowances, protecting families and children, as well as persons with disabilities. 'Some expenditures have been optimized. Thanks to the active measures of ANOFM and the reform of the State Labor Inspectorate, we have increased the number of people employed, which reduced expenditures for unemployment aid,' the minister said.