The companies operating on the left side of the Nistru River are facing difficulties in purchasing raw material and exporting the finished products. As a result, the money collected into the budget of the Transnistrian region decreased. Tiraspol anticipates that the pensions and other social welfare will be paid with delay in 2015, IPN reports.

According to a Transnistrian TV channel, the deficit now exceeds 37% of the sum needed for paying social benefits even if the budget incomes were slightly higher than planned.

At the same time, the Transnistrian administration has debts to budget-funded employees. It pledged to clear them by the end of this year. Earlier, owing to the economic problems faced, the work program of the budget-funded workers was reduced.

The region’s leader Yevgeny Shevchuk asked that the debts to the budget-funded employees should be settled the first. The so-called minister of finance of Transnistria Elena Ganjul said that they can now pay 50% of the debts to budget-funded workers for September, while the other debts will be cleared by this yearend.