Sindicatura de Comptes has audited compliance with current legislation on subsidies and benefits granted for the following reasons. COVID-19 In fiscal year 2020, by local establishments with a population of more than 50,000: Alcoy, Alicante, Benidorm, Castellón, Elche, Elda, Gandia, Orihuela, Paterna, Sagunto, San Vicente del Raspeig, Torrent, Torrevieja, València and Vila -as well as the royal three county councils.
The audit consisted of examining a sample file obtained from help lists submitted by audited entities. union. According to these data, 71.7 million Euros of aid has been provided by the organizations. In addition, some aspects of the grant area and its internal control were reviewed.
strategic plan
As a result of the review, it was seen that not all organizations approved a strategic plan for subsidies and did not publish calls and calls in the National Subsidy Database (BDNS) and the organization’s transparency portal. aids grants. Additionally, it should be noted that five of the organizations that received funding from the Generalitat and county councils to finance the delivery of covid-19 aid did not implement them at a rate higher than 20% in fiscal 2020. It highlights the Alicante City Council with a 40.6% non-implemented percentage.
Regarding the amount executed help to covid-19 The ranking from highest to lowest by institutions corresponding to 2020 is as follows: Valencia (22.9 million), Alicante (11.2), Alicante Provincial Council (9.6), Benidorm (5.7), Elche (4) , Provincial Assembly of Castellón ( 3.3), Provincial Assembly of Valencia (2.9), Castellón (2.5), Gandia (1.9), Sagunto (1.3), Elda and San Vicente del Raspeig (1.1), Orihuela (1), Paterna and Torrent (0.9), Alcoy (0.8), Torrevieja (0.3), and Vila-real (0.1).
With regard to internal control, all organizations annual financial control plan; other organizations have approved this, but do not consider control of the aid granted, and in other cases the plan has not been implemented. In addition, it was observed that there were objections and lack of control in some of the files examined.
It selected a sample of 36.5% of the covid-19 aids run by the institution for review. eighteen audited entities. Valencia City Council rejected more than one application for lack of credit, in addition to the full application of the credit referred.
Thirteen cases were observed in the files examined. important events, among which thirteen municipal councils stand out to call for assistance for self-employed and small businesses, whose purpose may partially overlap with assistance for the self-employed by the Generalitat. Specifically, there were 1,207 beneficiaries who received 1.5 million aid from the municipal councils and 1.7 million from the Generalitat.
pay back
Only four city councils have initiated the relevant reimbursement files. In the remainder of the cases, possible duplications identified were communicated to both the relevant town hall and the Labora organization as the aid manager. generalitatthereby coordinating the processing of relevant refunds.
In the Report, the Court of Auditors made a number of recommendations affecting the management of assistance, highlighting the following: grants allowing verification of the processing status of each of the help application files; The documentation review carried out by the management department leaves a record in each beneficiary’s individual file and is adequately staffed to carry out financial control plans or alternatively external audits.