Overview
- A 22-page external audit reports "important dysfunctions" and "ineffective procedures" in monitoring economic and housing support for young people formerly under care.
- A 2023–2024 sample identified €167,933 in overpayments, including €68,819 to seven beneficiaries who were working, plus nearly €42,000 in supervised housing incidents.
- Before 2022, 29 of 32 DGAIA case files lacked the required follow-up, and later oversight often relied on self-declarations because educators lacked verification tools.
- The Department has launched an exhaustive individual review of all cases and has administratively extended the SEVAP service while preparing a new contract.
- Auditors recommend minimum monitoring standards, rapid cross-checks with Social Security, the Tax Agency and municipal registers, and retroactive recovery of undue payments, as the government’s approved debt cancellation awaits parliamentary validation.