iNEWS, affiliated with KSS, posted late on 16 August that KSS secretary-general Abu Alaa al-Walai met wounded Popular Mobilization members after "his efforts, which bore fruit in solving the problem of their salaries". The post names no state body, no payroll authority and no decision, and gives no detail of what the salary problem was. It stands alone in the collected window; no other channel carried it, and no state or press account of a salary decision is in hand.
- iNEWSKSS — affiliated17 Aug, 02:35
“Al-Walai meets the wounded of the Hashd after his efforts, which bore fruit in solving the problem of their salaries”
الولائي يلتقي جرحى الحشد بعد جهوده التي اثمرت عن حل مشكلة رواتبهم
Watch: a PMF Authority or Finance Ministry announcement of a payment or entitlement decision for wounded members, other faction channels claiming the same fix, or the wounded members' own accounts naming who acted — any of these moves this file.