Office of the Comptroller General of the Social Security
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| Formed | December 28, 1977 |
| Headquarters | 5 Valenzuela Street Madrid |
| Employees | 51 (2024)[1] |
| Annual budget | € 91 million (2025)[2] |
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The Office of the Comptroller General of the Social Security (Spanish: Intervención General de la Seguridad Social, IGSS) is the department of the Spanish Ministry of Inclusion, Social Security and Migration responsible for the internal audit and accounting duties of all the entities that integrate the Social Security system.[3] Although integrated into the Ministry for Social Security, the Office reports directly to the Comptroller General of the State.
The IGSS was created in December 1977.[4] The current comptroller general of the Social Security is Sonia Pérez-Urría Ventosa, who assumed office on December 10, 2020.[5]
The Office has powers related to:[6]
- Internal control, through the exercise of the audit function and the financial control actions.
- The management of public accounting in the sphere of Social Security, without prejudice to the competences that are attributed in accounting matters to the IGAE.
- The accounting management of the Management Entities and Common Services of the Social Security.
- The advice to the management bodies derived from its control functions.
- The coordination of the comptroller delegations in the Managing Entities and Common Services of the Social Security, giving them the precise instructions for the development of their functions that it deems appropriate and resolving the queries that may be formulated by them.
- The participation with voice and vote in the collective bodies in which, in accordance with current regulations, it must assist.
- To advise in the preparation of the Social Security Budget.
- To send quarterly to the Budget Committees of the Congress of Deputies and the Senate the information on the execution of the budgets of the entities that make up the Social Security system.
- The exercise of any other functions and competences attributed to it by current regulations.