Kenya's Cabinet has approved comprehensive payroll reforms following a special audit of the 2024–2025 financial year that revealed widespread integrity issues and governance failures within the Government Human Resource Information System-Kenya (HRIS-K). The overhaul aims to ensure uniform application of statutory deductions across all public entities and address anomalies like altered payroll records and weak cybersecurity.

• The audit uncovered that 720 system editors altered over 4.7 million payroll records without audit trails, with some employees editing their own records.
• Nearly 300 State Corporations failed to fully migrate to the HRIS-K system, contributing to payroll anomalies.
• Mandatory security certification for HRIS-K by March 11 this year, deployment of forensic analytics, and full integration of a statutory deductions platform are key reform measures.