THE EVALUATION, ANTICIPATION, MONITORING AND CONTROL OF SOCIAL EXPENDITURES
The State General Accounting Department carries out a thorough appraisal, forecasting,
monitoring and control activity of social expenditures (pensions, long-term care, healthcare,
social shock absorbers, employment incentives). These tasks include:
- pre-legislative activity, in all phases of the process;
- social expenditure monitoring activities by the application of analytical detection and
processing models at monthly and quarterly level;
- Forecasting social expenditure trends using short- (for the purposes of preparing the PA
account in the context of all the public finance documents) and long-term analytical forecast
models. These models are used in international comparisons, specifically: European Union (Economic
Policy Committee - Working Group on Aging, EPC-WGA), OECD (preparation of reports for Italy, etc.)
and the International Monetary Fund (processing responses to the IMF questionnaires, for the annual
missions provided for in Article IV, etc.);
- the coordination of the Table on the verification of regional fulfilment for access to
increased financing of healthcare spending provided by the State-Regions Agreement of August 8,
2001;
- supervision of the deliberations of privatised social security authorities on contributions and
benefits;
- the activity of statistical information exchange with Istat, following the Convention between
the Department of the State General Accounting Department and Istat.