Mansour warns of inflation that will erode salaries and calls for restructuring the financial hierarchy.
Mansour warns of inflation that will erode salaries and calls for restructuring the financial hierarchy.
5-2-2026
Information/Baghdad…
Former MP Suzan Mansour warned on Saturday of a worsening cost-of-living crisis due to the inadequacy of current salaries in the face of soaring prices, especially as more than 30% of Iraqis now rely entirely on salaries and government subsidies that no longer cover basic needs.
Mansour told the Information Agency that “current salaries, especially for the lower ranks, are no longer commensurate with the difficult economic reality,” explaining that “there is undeclared inflation eroding citizens’ purchasing power at a time when retirees are suffering from a significant gap between their pensions and the cost of living.”
She pointed out that “the weak financial allocations for the social welfare network reflect a flaw in the state’s priorities, and that the large oil revenues should have been directed towards supporting vulnerable groups instead of the continued absence of reforms that increase poverty rates.”
She added that “it is necessary to take real steps to restructure the salary scale and increase pension and social welfare allowances in line with the poverty line, and this measure is the only way to guarantee a minimum level of social justice in the country.”
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