Dead souls continue to receive 30% discount from Telekomunikacja Polska

Urzad do Spraw Kombatantow i Osob Represjonowanych (USKOR), an organization representing veterans and victims of war crimes, is spending millions refunding telephone bills for people who have no right to a discount. Often the person entitled to the discount is long deceased, while the money from USKOR goes to living family members. According to documents found by Rzeczpospolita, 30% of TP SA subscribers abuse the discount. The telecom operator says the situation has been caused by USKOR, since it does not have a complete database. This year the organization is running into debt because of the telephone service price increase. Last year USKOR planned to spend zl. 44 million on telephone bill refunds, but in fact had to pay zl .55.5 million. This year, the organization has already run out of money. (Rzeczpospolita, p.A1)