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Catalonia’s €167M welfare breakdown
Between 2016 and 2024, over €167 million in social benefits were paid out incorrectly across Catalonia. If a single parent receives a benefit she didn’t qualify for, a young man’s unemployment exceeds the asset limit. And a civil servant in Nou Barris redirected €400,000 in aid to the wrong accounts — until a colleague flagged it. According to the Audits Office’s latest report, more than €220… Source
A report by the Catalan Accounts Union detects new "undue payments" by the Generalitat in terms of social benefits.
The management of the Catalan social funds is a real disaster. The Syndicate of Accounts has detected 168 million euros in fraudulent payments of social benefits by the Department of Social Rights between 2016 and 2024, under the mandate of ERC, as reflected in the report 6/2025. The directors of the Generalitat have always placed this issue as one of their main demands to the central government, but the analysis now reveals the lack of control …
The Syndicatura de Cuentas points out that its report describes "facts that could be administratively and judicially prosecuted".
Payments in the agency occurred between 2016 and 2024 when they were in charge of Puigdemont, Torra and Aragonès
The Auditor General has detected undue payments of benefits from the Department of Social Rights that exceed 167.5 million euros in the period 2016-2014. In a report on the benefits...
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