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Income from reinsurance ceded (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
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Summary of Income From Reinsurance Ceded |
|  | 2019 |  |  | 2018 |  |  | 2017 |
Recovered claims and benefits |  |  | 3,367 |  |  |  | 3,127 |  |  |  | 3,669 |
Change in technical provisions |  |  | (53 | ) |  |  | 372 |  |  |  | 497 |
Commissions |  |  | 218 |  |  |  | 241 |  |  |  | 122 |
Total |  |  | 3,532 |  |  |  | 3,740 |  |  |  | 4,288 |

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