18 Truth and Reconciliation Commission), its main task being to examine the 634 cases left unsolved by its predecessor, with further powers to hear new cases; d) “Programa de Derechos Humanos del Ministerio del Interior (Human Rights Program of the Department of the Interior),” which is the follow-up to the Corporación Nacional de Reparación y Reconciliación (National Corporation for Reparation and Reconciliation), its main task being to provide advisory assistance and institute legal proceedings to establish the circumstances of the disappearance and/or death of the victims and locate their remains; e) “Servicio Médico Legal (Legal Medical Service),” which seeks to identify the remains of detained-disappeared persons; f) “Oficina Nacional del Retorno (Nacional Return Office),” which was created by Law No.18.994 and “assisted persons who were sentenced and whose sentence was commuted to deportation under Supreme Decree [No.] 504; persons who were expelled or forced to leave the country under a resolution by the administrative authorities; persons who were banned from entering the country; persons who left the country through asylum protection; and persons who were accorded the United Nations Status of Refugees and obtained asylum in other countries for humanitarian reasons.” This office “provided primary assistance and referral to other public services and non-governmental organizations” and provided “administrative and reintegration measures;” g) “Programa para Exonerados Políticos (Political Exoneration Program),” whereby the State granted benefits to individuals who were dismissed from a Government Agency or from a company owned or managed by the State.” Moreover, “subsistence, non-contributory pensions, and grace period allowances were granted as benefits;” “Restitución o Indemnización por Bienes Confiscados y Adquiridos por h) el Estado (Restitution of or Compensation for Property Seized or Acquired by the State)” through Decree Laws No. 12, 77 and 133 of 1973; No. 1.697 of 1977, and No. 2.346 of 1978; i) “Mesa de Diálogo sobre Derechos Humanos (Human Rights Conversation Table),” whose primary purpose was to “further the investigation to find out the fate of detained-disappeared persons.” j) “Presidential Initiative “No hay mañana sin ayer” (“Yesterday for Tomorrow”), established to “continue making progress in the delicate process of healing the wounds caused by severe human rights violations” including measures aimed at “maximizing the search for truth and justice,” “improving social reparation to victims” and “empowering the society and its institutions so as to prevent human rights violations from happening again” and k) “Comisión Nacional sobre Prisión Política y Tortura (National Commission on Political Imprisonment and Torture),” which was created in November 2003 as part of the abovementioned presidential initiative and was aimed at “gathering information concerning violations of the right to personal liberty and to humane treatment and physical safety committed for political reasons.” Its purpose was to identify “the individuals who were deprived of