Syrian President Bashar al-Assad issued a legislative decree today, Monday, providing for a one-time financial grant of a fixed amount of 300,000 Syrian pounds for all state employees and retirees. Syrian presidential accounts reported that the grant is exempt from income tax on salaries and wages and any other deductions.
According to Legislative Decree No. 14 for the year 2024, the grant includes:
1. All employees within the territories of the Syrian Arab Republic (both civilian and military) in ministries, government administrations, public institutions, public sector companies, and other administrative units, as well as seized companies and schools. It also includes all entities in the public sector and joint sectors where the state's contribution to the capital is not less than 75%. Military personnel serving in the army and armed forces benefit from this grant.
Beneficiaries include permanent, temporary, and seasonal workers, whether they are agents, temporary, contracted, or appointed through grading tables. This includes those on a billing basis, by voucher system, workers from outside the roster according to hiring rules, messengers based on individual messages, programmatic contract employees, those charged teaching hours, and those working part-time or based on production or fixed and variable wages.
2. Pension recipients from both military and civilian personnel covered by existing insurance and pension laws, as well as social insurance. Beneficiaries also include the dependents of pension recipients and recipients of partial disability pensions among civilians who are not enrolled in any job and do not receive a pension from any other insurance entity.
