Horizontal: Fonasa Spending on Medical Leave for Public Sector Officials Totaled US$1,543 Million in 2023

Various reactions, judicial and summary proceedings provoked the revelation of Comptroller's office regarding 25 thousand public officials leaving the...

During the week, the Comptroller General’s Office revealed that between 2023 and 2024 there were 25,078 officials who travelled outside the country during their medical leave. A total of 35,585 medical licenses were issued for them, of which 69 per cent correspond to Fonasa and 31 per cent to isapres. Against this background, Horizontal, the study center linked to Evopoli, prepared a document where it makes proposals to reform the medical leave …

Center-right presidential candidate Evelyn Matthei presented a plan to end fake sick leave fraud in the state. Her proposal includes lifelong sanctions for public officials who use fake sick leave, full reimbursement of misused funds, and strict oversight to prevent further scams. A report from the Comptroller's Office revealed that more than 25,000 public officials left Chile while on sick leave between 2023 and 2024, a fraud that could have co…

The president of Transparent Chile, Alejandro Ferreiro, analyzed in the program Hoy Es Noticia de CNN Chile the case of the more than 25,000 officials who would have left the country while on medical leave. In this context, the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) announced this Thursday the opening of an administrative summary in the Superintendency of Social Security (Suseso), the Commission of Preventive Medicine and Invalidity (Compin) …

The entity seeks to investigate any breaches of these organisms in the regulation of medical rest.

The Office of the Comptroller General of the Republic (CGR) announced Thursday the initiation of investigations to three entities after it was known that more than 25,000 public officials traveled abroad during their medical leave.According to Emol, it is the Superintendency of Social Security (Suseso), the Commission of Preventive Medicine and Invalidity (Compin) and the National Health Fund (Fonasa), bodies dedicated precisely to controlling t…