{"id":115024,"date":"2026-05-05T11:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T08:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/business\/?p=115024"},"modified":"2026-05-05T10:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:32:28","slug":"govt-blames-payroll-mix-up-for-housing-interns-pay-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/business\/2026\/05\/govt-blames-payroll-mix-up-for-housing-interns-pay-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt blames payroll mix-up for housing interns pay delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, May 5 &#8211; The government has attributed delays in paying interns under the Affordable Housing Programme to a payroll mix-up, even as concerns grow over missed stipends.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking during an interview on NTV, State Department for Housing Principal Secretary Charles Hinga said no payments had been processed, including for senior officials, due to an administrative error.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is true that the interns have not been paid; actually, no one has been paid yet, including myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Hinga explained that the delay arose after human resource teams combined two separate payrolls\u2014one funded through the exchequer from the National Treasury and another financed through the housing levy.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA mistake occurred when HR combined the two payrolls\u2014the exchequer one and the one for the interns. The interns were supposed to be paid by the 25th because the money for them is already available,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the mix-up made it difficult to separate the payments, forcing interns\u2014whose funds were already available\u2014to wait for exchequer disbursements.<\/p>\n<p>The government launched the Affordable Housing Internship Programme last year, targeting about 5,500 young professionals for a one-year, non-renewable term across sectors such as construction, engineering and architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Hinga maintained that the delay was not due to a lack of funds and assured that payments would be processed once the exchequer is released.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe money is there; it was just a payroll mix-up. These are young people, and this stipend makes a huge difference for their daily expenses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the funds were expected to be released imminently, with interns likely to receive their payments within days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State Department for Housing Principal Secretary Charles Hinga said no payments had been processed, including for senior officials, due to an administrative error.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14381,"featured_media":115025,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,687],"tags":[8920,934,7983,27952,27953,27951],"coauthors":[6664],"class_list":["post-115024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kenya","category-top-stories","tag-blames","tag-featured","tag-govt","tag-housing-interns","tag-pay-delays","tag-payroll-mix-up"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.7.1 (Yoast SEO v25.7) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Govt blames payroll mix-up for housing interns pay delays - Capital Business<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"State Department for Housing Principal Secretary Charles Hinga said no payments had been processed, including for senior officials, due to an administrative error. 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