The Ministry of Finance ensures that the ADSE revenue increase because of higher discounts beneficiaries “was recorded in full payment of benefits granted by ADSE” and that “no penny share of this increase accruing to the coffers the state. “The reaction came after the release of an audit of the Court of Auditors to ADSE and was reinforced by the prime minister.
In a statement released on Friday, the ministry of Maria Luís Albuquerque clarifies the legal regime that applies in this case, in response to criticism and recommendations made by TB in a report also released on Friday.
The TB accuses the Government has decided to increase the discounts for the ADSE (1.5% in 2013 to 3.5% in 2014) without having studied the subject, so “excessive” and generating a surplus that exceeded 138, 9 million euros in 2014 and 89.4 million euros in 2015.
The problem is that the alert TB, “the constraints of the legal and financial regime of ADSE imply that it has a property very limited the surplus generated by the increase in the discount rate to 3.5% can not use them freely or in health expenditure financing, or obtain the same payment for the subscription of financial investments “.
“On the contrary, it is the State that benefits from the use of this surplus without any remuneration paid to ADSE” said the auditing team.
In practice, the TB is saying is that although consigned to the financing of the benefits of ADSE system – as the law provides. – the revenue from the rebates is “for accounting purposes, revenue from an integrated service of the State for what is reflected in the expected revenue in the state budget”
Before the news became public, the Ministry of Finance clarifies that the legal regime in force guarantees “non-appropriation by the state budget of funds that ADSE has in excess face the expense of any year of its activity.”
Nothing says, however, on the need to change the legal status of the health subsystem. Even the Director General of ADSE, heard for the purposes of contradictory for TB, said that one of the proposals considered by the working group created to study the changes in the ADSE is that future investment manager has administrative and financial autonomy, “enabling come to monetize the cash surpluses through investments in financial assets “.
This morning on the sidelines of a conference held at ISCTE, the Prime Minister, Pedro Passos Coelho, admitted that the profits of ADSE help balance public accounts, but rejects that are being used improperly.
“The idea that one might want to extract that the state has appropriated that money to finance is not correct. The money that results from contributions is in the ADSE and can only be appropriated by the beneficiaries themselves, “he explained, quoted by the press who was to accompany the conference.
Passos Coelho also admitted that, if there is excessive, the amount of discounts could be . corrected in the future
“In this case, the very ADSE may decide one of two things: either improve the level of service that has, as it has financial support for this, offer better benefits to beneficiaries, or eventually fix and lower the level of contributions. This is a matter that is open, “he said.
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