The Executive transfers seven million soles to regions for teacher incentives

The Executive Branch authorized a Transfer of Funds in the Public Sector Budget for Fiscal Year 2026, for up to S/ 7,278,000.00, charged to the resources of the Ministry of Education and in favor of various regional governments. The measure was formalized through Supreme Decree No. 252-2026-EF, published in the Official Gazette El Peruano on Friday, November 13, 2026, in the Legal Norms section, and bears the signatures of President Keiko Sofía Fujimori Higuchi, the Minister of Economy and Finance, Elmer Rafael Cuba Bustinza, and the Minister of Education, José Antonio Chang Escobedo.

The destination of the resources

The funds finance the differential cost involving the payment of the third and second installments of the entry incentive for teachers entering the Public Magisterial Career, corresponding to the 2022 and 2024 Appointment Contests, respectively. Likewise, they cover the exceptional payment of the second and first installments of those same contests, within the framework of the provisions of literal g) of numeral 82.1 of article 82 of Law No. 32513, Public Sector Budget Law for Fiscal Year 2026.

The detail is as follows:

• S/ 7,278,000.00 from the Ordinary Resources financing source.
• Enabling entity: Ministry of Education, Entity 010, Executing Unit 026, Basic Education for All Program, activity 5000003 Administrative Management.
• Enabled entities: regional governments, in the Second Section (Decentralized Entities), current expenditure on Personnel and Social Obligations.
• Beneficiaries: 25,533 teachers.

The annex with the breakdown for each regional government is an integral part of the regulation and is published on the digital platforms of the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Economy and Finance on the same day as the publication in the official gazette.

Legal basis and procedure

The regulation is based on numerals 82.1, 82.2, and 82.4 of article 82 of Law No. 32513, which authorize the Ministry of Education to carry out budgetary modifications at the institutional level in favor of regional governments up to S/ 587,272,027.00 during fiscal year 2026, and which require that these operations be approved by supreme decree endorsed by the Ministers of Economy and Finance and Education, upon the proposal of the latter. The law set the publication deadline as November 13, 2026.

The request was formulated by the Ministry of Education through Official Letter No. 02121-2026-MINEDU/SG, supported by Report No. 01941-2026-MINEDU/SPE-OPEP-UPP and complemented by Report No. 02200-2026-MINEDU/SPE-OPEP-UPP. The estimated cost was determined by the General Directorate of Fiscal Management of Human Resources of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, through Report No. 3363-2026-EF/53.04.

Deadlines and controls

The heads of the enabling budget entity and the enabled budget entities must approve, by resolution, the breakdown of resources at the programmatic level within five calendar days following the effective date of the supreme decree. A copy of said resolution must be sent, within the same period, to the bodies indicated in numeral 31.4 of article 31 of Legislative Decree No. 1440.

Article 3 of the regulation establishes that the transferred resources may not be used, under responsibility, for purposes other than those for which they are transferred. The provision was issued at the Government House, in Lima, on November 12, 2026. On that same day, two other decrees of the same nature were published: S.D. No. 250-2026-EF, for S/ 27,282.00 in favor of the National Environmental Certification Service for Sustainable Investments, and S.D. No. 251-2026-EF, for S/ 3,267,312.00, for the National Institute of Health, the National Institute of Neoplastic Diseases, and regional health executing units, with 2,944 beneficiaries.

Impact on regional execution

The transfer injects liquidity into regional budget entities in the final stretch of the 2026 fiscal year to close remuneration commitments already accrued with the teaching staff, preventing regional governments from having to cover them with their own resources or internal reallocations. The payment reaches more than twenty-five thousand teachers incorporated into the Public Magisterial Career in the 2022 and 2024 competitions, such that its timely execution directly affects the December payroll and the regularity of the educational service in the regions.

Source: Official Gazette El Peruano, edition of Friday, November 13, 2026, Legal Norms, p. 29 (official reference: S.D. No. 252-2026-EF).