translated from Spanish: Contraloria detected “lags” in the Social Household Registry “what could have affected” 3,000 people in the payment of the Covid bonus

As reported by Emol, the Office of the Office of the Attorney General of the Republic, detected “lags” in the information database in the Social Household Registry of the Ministry of Development which could have affected more than 3,000 people who were unable to access the first payment of the Covid bond.According to information from the Under-Secretary for Social Assessment, it notes that the agency’s report during the period from 1 November 2019 to 26 April 2020 , 224,111 were received. requests for modification, and states that “in this regard, it was noted that, for those requests made until March 21, 2020, there were 3,014 cases that were resolved after the 26th of equal month and year, cut-off date to determine those enabled for the first payment of the covid-19 bond; so citizens did not see this change reflected for that March, which could have affected their socio-economic qualification, preventing their enablement to obtain that benefit.” In the audit, it asserts that “additionally, 69,802 modification requirements were found, the settlement of which took more than 5 working days, the maximum period set out in Exempt Resolution No. 72 of 2020, which ‘Approves Technical Protocols for the Updating and Rectification of Information of Administrative Records and Supplement of Information to the Social Register of Households, -of Supreme Decree No. 22 , 2015, of the Ministry of Social Development and Family- Leaves Without Effect Resolutions that Indica’, of the Undersecretary of Social Services even reaching more than 50 days.” Another 1,048 cases were also found in respect of which no response had been made to the change requested by the citizen, being in process and exceeding the pre-requested 5 working days”, adds the letter.

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