We are making frantic efforts to index the income of employees in the budget sector by 5% by the end of the month, but if I have to be honest, in my opinion this will actually happen with the payments in February, with the payment returning from January 1. This was said by the outgoing Deputy Minister of Finance Kiril Ananiev in response to a question from the President of the Confederation of Independent Trade Unions in Bulgaria (CITUB) Plamen Dimitrov regarding the implementation of the so-called extension law on the budget, BTA reports. The topic was raised during the meeting of the National Council for Tripartite Cooperation (NCTC).
Revenues are collected in accordance with the current legislation, and expenditures are made up to the amount of expenses incurred for the previous period, taking into account the acts of the National Assembly and the Council of Ministers that have entered into force, Ananiev said. He pointed out that the budget extension law provides for various options. In the event that revenues are not implemented in the respective planned amounts, expenditures are proportionally reduced in accordance with the reduction in revenues, with priority being given to expenditures for salaries, social payments and pensions, he explained.
We are currently preparing instructions to ministries and departments and municipalities on how to implement these texts, recorded in the Public Finance Law and in the budget extension law, Ananiev also pointed out.
In December 2025, the parliament voted on the so-called budget extension law. The deputies agreed to a one-time indexation of salaries in the amount of the annual inflation accumulated as of December 31, 2025 for everyone in the budget sphere who is not on the minimum wage.