Minister of Economics, Paulo Guedes, said this week that measure can mean reduction of expenditures in the order of R $20 billion.
by Reuters
The Special Secretary of Welfare and Labor of the Ministry of Economics, Rogério Marinho, said on Wednesday (9) that up to 2 million social security benefits should be audited for having indications of irregularities, within the scope of the measure Provisional anti-fraud which must be signed by President Jair Bolsonaro by Monday.
“There are 2 million benefits that need to be audited because there is some hint of illegality. It does not mean that they are illicit, so there is a need to be made a kind of effort to zero that stock. This alone can mean a significant economy, “said Marinho when he left a meeting with Bolsonaro, the Minister of Economics, Paulo Guedes, and the minister of the Civil House, Onyx Lorenzoni.
This week, Guedes stated that the economy with the measures can be between r $17 billion and r $20 billion. Marinho confirms that the economy will be in the “House of the billions” and can reach the values dealt with by the minister, but chose not to give numbers. According to him, simulations are still being made to close that data.
According to the secretary, previous reports from the EU Court of Auditors show an incidence of 16% to 30% of fraud in the benefits paid by the welfare.
The MP, which has already been presented to the President and is in the legal analysis phase by the Civil House, provides for about and 18 different actions to combat fraud and also to harden the granting of certain benefits.
Among them, changes in the rules of the aid-imprisonment, paid the family of prisoners, which require a contribution of at least one year to the INSS to guarantee the benefit.
In another case, that of pensions for death, it will be necessary to present a stable union document to obtain the pension, and no more only testimonial evidence.
Marinho also confirmed that a bonus will be paid to the servers of the INSS to work to find the irregularities and that this allowance would serve as a stimulus for the tax authorities to remain active even when they are old for retirement.
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