Acting minister of finance Anatol Arapu, in the January 14 meeting of the interim Cabinet, said there is enough money for paying the salaries and social benefits for January, IPN reports.

Asked by acting Prime Minister Gheorghe Brega to comment on unofficial reports about the delays in paying salaries, Anatol Arapu said the law on public finances and budgetary-fiscal responsibilities and the new methodology for utilizing the national public budget started to be applied on January 1, 2016. The budget payments can be made only after the provisional budgets of the authorities and budget institutions are fully disintegrated.

The acting minister noted that from January 1, the payments into and from the budget are made by mandatorily using the IBAN code. To inform about the given changes, the Ministry of Finance in May – December 2015 staged a series of seminars for local and central public authorities. There were also sent methodological letters and distributed two informative brochures.

Anatol Arapu also said that when the public institutions present the payment documents on time, all the payments are made immediately.