LAW NO. 20,924 GRANTS AN EXTRAORDINARY ALLOCATION, FOR THE ONLY TIME, FOR PUBLIC SERVANTS OF LOWER SALARIES IN THE ATACAMA REGION, WHO MEET THE CONDITIONS INDICATED. approval of the following bill: " Article 1.-Grant an extraordinary allocation, for the year 2019, to the public servants who are in the Atacama Region, with a contract in force at 1 January 2018 and who are in service to the date of payment of the allocation, provided that they are entitled to a gross monthly remuneration equal to or less than $766,376 in the month immediately prior to the payment of the said allowance for a working day of 44 or more hours per week and which are in the quality of the plant, contracts and contracts according to the rules of the Code of the They are paid in accordance with Decree Law No. 249 of 1973 and Title I of Decree Law Nº 3,551 of 1980. Also, officials who have a monthly gross remuneration of more than $766,376 but less than or equal to $886,807 for a working day of 44 or more hours per week will be entitled to 50 percent of the allowance. For their part, officials with weekly working days of less than 44 hours shall be entitled to the allowance, provided that they comply with the other requirements, including entitlement to a gross monthly remuneration equal to or less than the thresholds indicated, adjusted in proportion to the fraction of the working day, in respect of one of 44 hours. Under the same conditions, the extraordinary allocation set out in this article will be granted to the following officials of the Atacama Region of the entities that are indicated: to the staff of the plant and to contracts of the General Directorate of Civil Aeronautics; to the staff of the Primary Health Care of Municipal Health governed by the law Nº 19.378; to the education assistants governed by the law Nº 19,464 to be carried out in the educational establishments administered directly by the municipalities or private non-profit corporations created by them or in the services local public education; academic, non-academic, professional and managerial officials of the University of Atacama, and municipal officials governed by Title II of Decree Law Nº 3,551, 1980, and by law Nº 18.883. The staff referred to in this paragraph shall meet the requirements set out in the previous paragraph to be entitled to the extraordinary allowance. The heads of service or the higher authorities of the institutions referred to in the preceding points, as appropriate, shall forward to the Regional Mayor the payroll of beneficiaries of the extraordinary allocation within the month following the payment of the the same. Article 2 °.-The extraordinary allowance noted in the previous article will amount to the annual sum of $218,965 and will be paid in a single fee in the month of August 2019, to officials who are in service to the date of their payment. For the purposes of the first indent of the preceding article, gross remuneration shall be those of a permanent nature, excluding bonuses, allowances or bonuses associated with individual, collective or institutional performance. The extraordinary allocation shall be non-taxable and non-taxable and shall not serve as the basis for calculating any other remuneration. Article 3 °.-During the year 2019, the highest expenditure representing the application of this law, for the entities mentioned in the previous articles, will be financed with reallocations of resources from the government's investment budget. Regional of the Region of Atacama. In the case of institutions that are not covered by the budget law, the resources will be directly transferred to them by the Regional Government. Article 4 °.-During the year 2016, the Ministry of Finance will commission a study on differential consumption patterns, and its assessment, in the Region of Atacama with respect to other regions of the country, which should be completed in the year 2017. The greatest fiscal expenditure represented by the application of this article, during the first financial year of its term, will be financed with resources from the budget line of the Ministry of Finance and, in what will be lacking, from And because I have had to approve and sanction it; therefore, promulgate and take effect as the Law of the Republic. Santiago, May 26, 2016.-MICHELLE BACHELET, President of the Republic.-Rodrigo Valdes Pulido, Minister of Finance. What I transcribe to you for your knowledge.-Saluda Atté. to you, Aejandro Micco Aguayo, Undersecretary of Finance.