The Ministry of Finance released Monday a report about the number of Libya’s state workers and pay after matching them with the national ID number. The ministry report recorded between 1.400.000 and 1.505.859 state employees in 2016 with a payroll of LYD 1.506.975.980 billion per month. The report summarizes the functionality of the ministry’s national ID matching system, which was launched in 2015 with the aim to remove job duplication and redundancy. The ministry said it had entered around 2 million national ID numbers into the matching system and eliminated 100.000 dual jobs. The national ID matching system also discovered 15000 national ID numbers for seniors and retirees receiving government salaries in addition to their pension.

Source: Libya Observer March 14, 2017 11:03 UTC