The Government has confirmed the delivery of 49 pensions only to victims of human rights violations that occurred in the 2019 social crisis.
This is how the Undersecretary of the Interior informed the National Institute of Human Rights (INDH), after it requested the information in two official letters and other opportunities, in order to establish the destination of the 125 pension applications that had been accredited until 17 December 2021. In total, the INDH accredited 145 victims of human rights violations that occurred during the social outbreak.
In 2020, during the processing of the 2021 Budget Law, the National Congress established “Gloss 12”, in Item 50, Chapter 01, Program 02, corresponding to Retirements, Pensions and Montepíos.
In said section, it was established that “victims of human rights violations accredited by the INDH who, due to their injuries, suffer permanent impairment, complete or partial, of their ability to work from October 18, 2019, may be considered as beneficiaries. 2019 onwards”.
This compensation, which adds a new category within the “beneficiaries” that the President of the Republic, Sebastián Piñera, graciously grants, is far from being a public policy of comprehensive reparation such as the one requested by the INDH since December 2019. regulations should comply with standards of comprehensiveness, permanence and sufficiency of resources. To date, no progress has been made along these lines.
Despite this, since August last year the INDH has assumed the mission entrusted to Congress. In this way, during 2021 it accredited a total of 145 people. Of these, 122 are men and 23 women. While 139 are adults and six are under 18 years of age. In addition, 69 are victims of ocular trauma, one deceased and one person who was in vital danger.
Of these 145 cases5, the National Institute of Human Rights requested access to the results of 125 applications that had completed their procedures. In the first letter of December 17, he requested to know the destination of 105 folders sent until December 2. On January 7 of this year, he requested the same thing again with respect to other requests that had been sent on the same December 17.
Regarding the compensation mechanism for victims of human rights violations, this was maintained by Congress in the 2022 Budget Law. However, its name was changed. It is now included in “Gloss 15”. Also found in Public Treasury, Item 50, Chapter 01, Program 02.
With the new gloss, 63 victims have been accredited so far this year, which correspond to 53 men and ten women. Fifteen of them are due to ocular trauma, 48 due to other types of physical injuries. In addition, 58 people are adults and five are minors.
