This week, the Comptroller’s Office has exposed a series of criticisms following revealing that 58 individuals who benefited from grace pensions, granted following the social outbreak, have criminal records, including violent crimes. This finding has generated controversy and questions regarding the effectiveness and transparency of the process of assigning these pensions.
The Comptroller’s Office highlighted that in some cases no medical records were presented to support the requests for grace pensions. In addition, it was highlighted that 19 files sent by the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH) – the entity in charge of accrediting victims of human rights violations – did not include medical information.
The Undersecretary of the Interior, Manuel Monsalve, established on January 4, 2022, that one of the requirements to grant these pensions was to have a report from the INDH. However, an official letter dated September 23, 2022, sent by the director of the INDH, Consuelo Contreras, informed President Gabriel Boric regarding the institute’s inability to prove the permanent impairment of the work capacity of victims of rights violations. humans that occurred from October 18, 2019 onwards.
The director of the INDH indicated that, although the institute can accredit the status of victims of human rights violations, it does not have the technical capabilities or expertise necessary to verify the physical consequences derived from these events.
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