According to a report from the General Audit Office (AGN, for its acronym in Spanish) approved in May of this year, the Ministry of Social Development to their budget does not include utilities that correspond to it for being a shareholder of the National Society of the Federal Lottery. The Watchdog, which made the same observation in a 2001 work -and adding that money- recommended concluded that the portfolio leaves $101,515,559.98 outside their expenses.

According to the financial statements of National Lottery, that total comes from the accumulated surplus since 1998, when the then Secretariat longer incorporates its share of the profits, and that sum $ 44,888,018.17, plus the corresponding profit distribution for 2004, a $ 56,627,541.81.

Moreover, the AGN found that "there is an overlap of duties" to be performed by different areas of the Ministry and also the tasks provided for each year "no formal planning is done."

In an address to the portfolio, the Social Emergency, the report states that there are no formal procedures manuals, or tramitación- circuits that indicate areas and those responsible should be involved in the approval or denial of requests for assistance they receive. In fact, the Audit added that "there is no single table entry to record that the total aid applications and -hacer- tracking procedures."

In addition, Social Emergency does not control the delivery of aid given to the potential beneficiaries, nor has a formal criterion specifying how priorities are set for the allocation of subsidies.