Kuwait Approves KWD2.7 Million Final Account for Agency Abolished in June

Kuwait approved a final account recording **KWD 2,707,660.751 in expenditure** and **KWD 46,641.944 in revenue** for its former Public Authority for Youth, according to Decree-Law No. 125 of 2026, dated 25 October and published in the official gazette on **1 November 2026**. The agency had already been abolished under a separate decree published on **28 June**.

The two decisions, examined together, document an agency's closure and a subsequent financial-accounting step. They do **not** establish improper spending, a missing sum or a criminal offence.

Decree-Law 125 identifies the financial year as **2026/27** and records the excess of expenditure over the authority's own revenue as **KWD 2,661,018.807**. It says that difference was covered through the government ministries and departments budget, via the Finance Ministry's general accounts. This is a difference between spending and agency revenue, **not a finding of lost or stolen money**.

Kuwaiti newspapers Al Rai and Al Jarida reported the 1 November decree and its figures. A transcription of the decree published by Kuwaiti legal-reference portal LawsKW provides the more precise amounts. The official Kuwait Al-Youm gazette lists its 1 November edition as issue 1815, but the scanned schedules attached to the decree have not been independently examined by TFNOS.

What happened to the youth authority

The earlier **Decree-Law No. 63 of 2026**, issued on 21 June and published on 28 June, abolished the Public Authority for Youth created under Law No. 100 of 2015. It transferred the former authority's rights, obligations and physical assets to the Public Authority for Sport and provided for permanent employees to be reassigned through the Civil Service Commission.

Al Rai's 28 June report reproduced the dissolution provisions and explanatory memorandum. The government argued that consolidating public bodies could reduce administrative overlap and costs and said the youth authority had not achieved its intended objectives. Those are the government's stated reasons for the reform, not an independent performance audit finding.

The **2026/27** final-account label is noteworthy because the decree was signed in October 2026, before the ordinary fiscal year would have ended. The June abolition offers a possible administrative explanation for an early closing account, but the accessible decree text does not identify the precise transaction cutoff, settlement schedule or reconciliation of transferred obligations. TFNOS has not obtained a separate ministry explanation establishing the accounting treatment.

What the figures do — and do not — show

The recorded KWD 2.708 million is expenditure in the final-account decree, not an announced savings figure. The KWD 2.661 million difference is covered through public accounts; it cannot be described as a deficit caused by misconduct or as a loss to the state.

The new account should not be casually compared with a separate **KWD 12.29 million** spending figure for the authority's **2025/26** accounts. The periods and closure context differ, and without the detailed schedules there is no defensible like-for-like calculation of how much the abolition saved.

The next questions are which transactions were included in the early 2026/27 closing account, what liabilities and assets moved to the Public Authority for Sport, what staff-transition and programme costs remained, and whether the Finance Ministry has reconciled those figures in its consolidated accounts. Any claim of savings, overspending or irregular transfers would require the underlying schedules, audit findings and an explanation from the responsible institutions.