Treasury cuts travel, tea, and lunch allowances for Civil Servants
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National Treasury cuts by half travel allowances for civil servants while banning non-essential tea and lunch in new austerity measures
National Treasury cuts by half travel allowances for civil servants while banning non-essential tea and lunch in new austerity measures.
The National Treasury has announced new strict austerity measures targeting ministries, departments, and agencies to cut costs.
In the new measures, the government chopped allowances for official travel to half and limited the category of officers allowed to use planes on domestic routes.
In addition, the Treasury has banned non-essential lunch, tea, and water for civil servants and reduced imprests for use by 50 percent.
“The Budget Implementation Committee has analyzed the situation and has agreed on the need for the National Treasury to effect measures that will support budget and expenditure management,” Treasury PS Chris Kiptoo said in a circular.
In the new measures, transport provision for civil servants on official duty has been capped at Sh5,000 from the current Sh10,000, and officers are encouraged “to use alternative and safe online taxis and public mode transport”.
Further, the use of local flights will be limited to officials in the rank of Cabinet secretary, principal secretary, director general, director, heads of department and their deputies as well as principal administrative secretaries.
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“Meetings and task forces activities to be held in boardrooms except for exceptional cases to be approved by the accounting officer. You should also promote paperless communication through the use of email,” said Dr Kiptoo.
“Lunches, teas, and snacks, as well as water, are rationalized with lunch only provided in exceptional cases. Fuel cards be rationalized as per available budgets,” he said, adding that office tea and other operational standing imprests will also be rationalized by 50 percent and effected from January 2024 in line with budget cuts.
This comes after a report by the Controller of Budget Margaret Nyakang’o revealed civil servants spent a whopping KSh 4.3 billion on travel in three months.
Nyakang’o’s report showed that luxury foreign travel also increased by almost a third in the first three months of the 2023–24 financial year, from July to September.
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