Treasury websites have been under attack since last Monday; Labor and Social Security and Science, Innovation, Technology and Telecommunications, as well as the Costa Rica Social Security Fund, the Development Fund and Family Allowances and the National Meteorological Institute, among others.
The original Treasury website is disabled and there is no date for its restoration due to the inability to perform many essential services, such as art. manually.
The Ministry of Finance pointed out that the new platform is under constant development, so the institutional computer systems will be integrated as soon as they are activated, but citizens can now participate in some virtual procedures.
This first phase also includes the platform for virtual procedures TRAVI, the integrated public procurement system, the public procurement observatory, as well as information on the state budget, salary payment schedule, interest statistics, information for the investor and general information about this fund.
On this new website, the Ministry of Finance made available to citizens the medium-term budgetary framework of the central government and the non-financial public sector, as well as the medium-term debt strategy for the period 2022-2027 and key instruments for the country’s financial policy.
With the framework and from a fiscal perspective, the non-financial public sector is analyzed and examined as a whole, so this tool will be a monitoring and analytical tool for consumption by the public, private, academic and international sectors of fiscal policy. implemented by the respective government.
The strategy aims to contribute to macroeconomic balance and debt sustainability through the formulation and implementation of an instrument that is consistent with the country’s fiscal situation and the sources of financing available to Costa Rica’s public finances.
In addition, the Treasury notes that the strategy is in line with fiscal discipline, which is the framework for efficient and responsible management of public resources, and international best practices in public debt management.
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