The differences presented in the Rural and Sub-Urban Electrification Unit (UERS) during the management of Thelma Eusebio, which lasted between 2012 and 2020, amount to more than 21 million pesos over what was executed in the budget during that period.
In it special report of an audit carried out by the Chamber of Accounts to this already eliminated entity, the auditors observed significant differences between runs expenditure budgets, as well as between the actual physical payrolls and payrolls in digital format, corresponding to the permanent staff of that institution.
The millions of difference that are evidenced in the payment records and financial reports of the personnel account, corresponding to the period 2012-2020, range from nine million to more than 30 million, “which affects the reliability and veracity of the information analyzed ”.
The general total of the budgetary execution destined for payroll in the eight years mentioned was RD$2,071,784,282. However, the physical payroll records a general total of RD$2,081,649,971 in payments, which means a difference of RD$9,865,689.
While the digital payrolls show that in payments to the personnel, between 2012 and 2020, some RD$2,050,729,844 were allocated. This amount represents RD$21,054,438 that was overspent during that period of time.
In addition to the differences with the budget execution, both payrolls, both digital and physical, differ in figures. The first one, with RD$2,081,649,971, is the largest amount.
While the second, with a general total of RD$2,050,729,844, has RD$30,920,127 more than what is registered in the digital payroll.
Thelma Eusebio, former general director of the UERS, explained to the Chamber of Accounts that the differences presented between the physical and digital payroll, as well as with the budget execution, are impossible, “because the physical payroll is to fully print the digital payroll”.
“The payroll system interfaces with the SAP system, where social charges are accounted for and added. In other words, the payroll system contains the gross payroll (fixed employee salaries and the corresponding deductions), but the SAP system includes the contribution made by the institution to each of these employees, for contributions to social security, health and occupational risk. ; so that the employer or institutional contribution is made by SAP automatically”, adds Eusebio’s response through a communication signed on November 30, 2021 and which is outlined in the special report.