The Kurdistan Regional Government’s (KRG) high-level negotiating delegation arrived in Baghdad on Sunday, November 8, 2026, to continue discussions on the Kurdistan Region’s financial entitlements in the draft 2027 federal budget law.

The delegation will meet with relevant federal government officials to present its comments on the draft legislation and seek to secure the constitutional rights of the people of Kurdistan and the financial entitlements of public-sector employees.

According to a new report by the KRG Media and Information Office published on Sunday and received by Kurdistan Chronicle, of the 146 trillion Iraqi dinars allocated to the Kurdistan Region between 2014 and 2025, only 41 trillion dinars were transferred by the federal government. 

The report argued that the federal government has consistently failed to transfer the full budgetary allocations due to the Kurdistan Region.

According to the KRG’s data, the Kurdistan Region received an average of just 2.04% of Iraq’s federal budget over the 12-year period, while the equivalent of eight years of public-sector salaries was not transferred.

The report also states that the number of sovereign budget expenditure items increased from 10 to 100 during this period, while the Kurdistan Region contributed 65 trillion dinars to the sovereign budget.

On September 29, the KRG demanded that the Kurdistan Region’s 14.14% share of Iraq’s population be maintained in the draft 2027 budget law, and accused Baghdad of reducing the Kurdistan Region’s population figures in Iraq’s census results.

On November 3, a report published by the KRG’s High Council for Women surveying 400 households across all governorates in the Kurdistan Region found that more than 90% struggle to afford basic needs, including food, healthcare, and education, as a result of budget cuts by Baghdad.

Salary delays and budget cuts by Baghdad since 2014 have negatively impacted the economic situation of families across the Kurdistan Region.

The Iraqi government had previously promised that the salaries of civil servants in the Kurdistan Region would be disbursed on time.