Government intervenes to save civil servants from debt trap

The worsening debt trap which civil servants continue to fall into could be due to two factors – living beyond their means or barely making ends meet.
But whatever it is, the truth is that it is a crisis, and the state has decided to intervene. The Department of Public Service and Administration has put the process out to tender, Transform Online learns.
The huge wage bill comprises the big part of the government expenditure, a situation which economists from different situation have warned that it is not sustainable.
As far back as 2007, the Public Service Commission (PSC) reported that 20% of civil servants were heavily indebted. Now, the situation is worse, characterised by emolument attachments, or “garnishee” orders, being deducted from their salaries. The government bears an administrative burden from implementing the attachment orders.