1996

A total of more than 100 employees were working for the State Treasury department.

Each regional office had its local payment system. Their task was to channel the ministries and other State’s agencies’ payments to Eesti Ühispank, Põhja-Eesti Pank and Hoiupank (the banks) through the banks’ payment programmes, and manually check budget limits and whether the payments were lawful.

Each State agency had to submit all its outgoing payments (filled in on a special paper form) to a regional office. In addition, copies of all invoices had to accompany outgoing payments.

Once a month the regional offices sent information about outgoing payments to the main office. Based on this information a monthly report was prepared that showed how much was spent by whom and for what.