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Excess payments of over 200 million pesos to 42 senior Senate officials, current and others already retired, were detected by an audit whose conclusions have been in the hands of the Internal Regime Commission of the Upper House since last August 26 .
According to what was revealed by El Mercurio, in the overpayment that reached a figure of 208,913,576 pesos, between January 2017 and February 2020, there are three “most urgent situations”. Those are: “legal support of salaries created by agreements of the Internal Regime; salaries paid in excess to 42 officials of the highest categories of the service between January 2017 and February 2020; and management system of institutional and collective goals (public resources ) “.
According to the analysis made by the Department of Finance and the Internal Audit Unit, “the problem that caused the overpayment, both in liquid salaries and income tax, of 42 employees”, was motivated by “the overestimation of the complement of gross working hours for not updating the tax table for which it was estimated “.
“In practice, to avoid a reduction in the liquid salary of 42 civil servants, an additional payment was established to cover the taxes, which allows them the full remuneration outside of taxes. The difficulty was that the tax was overestimated, therefore that there was a margin in favor “, it is explained.
The report instructs “an administrative summary to determine and / or rule out administrative responsibilities. And a proposal to modify the personnel regulations was raised, to give the head of the service the power to grant, for well-founded reasons, payment facilities for the reimbursement of payments received in excess “.
“Without complying with formalities”
Regarding the duplication of goals, it is established that “twenty-one (21) of the twenty-eight (28) goals for the institutional incentive are replicated to configure the totality of the collective goals of the corporation. This distorts the objective intended by law 19.553 to create two related incentives, but different from each other and that also have different percentages of remuneration increase “.
The problem is that the “legal support of remunerations created by agreements of the Internal Regime, without complying with formalities with respect to which a regularization mechanism is proposed, based on two studies in law requested”. For this reason, the report “recommends that there be a regularization of all assets that are not legally supported.”
Given these irregularities, the president of the Senate, Adriana Muñoz, said that “we are learning about the results and comparing them with officials to see what action to follow.” In addition, the parliamentary PPD commented that “it is an audit that was carried out during the presidency of Senator Quintana and only now the results are being released, the different conclusions that were drawn.”
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