Opacity in saving and jump to the rules
The flagship program of the current federal administration also It operates without informing the sowers of the status of a bag with more than 4,200 million pesos formed with the savings of the beneficiaries.
According to Operating Rules 2021 published in the Official Gazette of the Federation, of 5,000 pesos of monthly support granted by the program, to the sowers 500 pesos are obligatorily withheld, so they only receive 4,500 pesos.
According to the rules, with the 500 pesos withheld, the Welfare Secretariat handles them as follows:
- 250 pesos go to an investment account where farmers save for three years with the aim of “helping the family patrimony.”
- 250 pesos are destined for the creation of the “Welfare Fund” that will be administered through a private trust in order to support producers to consolidate productive projects in the medium and long term.
Hugo Raúl Paulín Hernández, Undersecretary of Planning, Evaluation and Regional Development of the Ministry of Welfare, and who is in charge of the program, explained that the Fund was never established despite the fact that for three years it has been mentioned in the guidelines and in the program rules.
That trust was never constituted, that trust was being prepared, but it was never constituted ”
Hugo Raúl Paulín Hernández, Undersecretary of Planning, Evaluation and Regional Development of the Ministry of Welfare
According to the Undersecretary, the farmers’ savings are kept in the Banco del Bienestar in a savings account.
Expansion and Connectas they found that the sowers They are not informed of the location, financial management, balances and interests that their savings generate, nor do they have anything signed that guarantees they are owners of that money.
In addition, the dependency nor does it report the withholding of resources to the sowers to the Ministry of Finance, Therefore, according to the reviews of the Quarterly Reports and the 2019 and 2020 Public Accounts, the entire modified budget is deemed to have been disbursed. According to experts, the above is not correct, since the agency withholds 10% of their money from each peasant and keeps them, so it cannot be said that it delivers all the resources.
This situation, they point out, in addition to contributing to opacity, violates the principle of annuality of the Expenditure Budget, since it is public money that should return to the Federation Treasury.
