Government Adopts an Exceptional Revised Budget to Support School Reopening and Vulnerable Families

On 22 September 2025 the government, through the Prime Minister's office, announced adoption of a new rectified budget for FY2024-2025, an exceptional step justified by an urgent national need to support families and facilitate school reopening despite the fiscal year's imminent close. The total budget of HTG 317.701 billion represents a 1.8% (HTG 5.75 billion) reduction from the April 2025 rectified projection, achieved by reorienting under-absorbed credits from secondary priorities toward education, social protection and security.

Three measures anchor the reallocation: a cash transfer to 200,000 parents of schoolchildren to ease back-to-school costs amid inflation; rapid infrastructure works (paving, drainage, street rehabilitation) in school zones under the High-Labor-Intensity Works (HIMO) approach, generating temporary employment while improving school-area mobility; and distribution of school kits (notebooks, bags, uniforms, shoes and other essential materials) to children from the most vulnerable families. The communiqué frames the reallocation as responsible governance placing education and protection of the most fragile at the center of public action, and as laying groundwork for the incoming fiscal year's budget.