Message appears in a video published on social media this Sunday (Dec 1); the government included military spending in the fiscal review package
Published this Sunday morning (1st.Dec.2024) a video in honor of the military, sailors and marines, who, according to the publication, “they give up their families and leisure time to protect Brazil’s wealth”. In the end, the play questions: “Privileges? Come to the Navy”.
Sailor’s Day is celebrated on December 13th, and the video is part of the tributes. But the publication comes days after the economic team included spending on the military in the spending cut package.
Watch (1min38s):
The video mixes images of sailors and marines working in extreme situations with civilians having fun during leisure time and family gatherings.
The idea is to show that a military career has deprivations that cannot be compared to civilian professionals.
MILITARY EXPENDITURE
Regarding savings measures aimed at the military, the ideas put on the table were:
- Military pensions – minimum age will be set at 55 years. Today, there is no minimum age, but only length of service, which is 35 years for those who entered after the approval of Law No. 13,954, of 2019;
- “fictional death” – it must end. It occurs today when soldiers are considered unfit for service and are expelled. They are considered dead, but their families maintain the benefits, receiving their salary. The “morto ficto” (fictitious death) emerged with the approval of Law No. 3,765, of 1960, which deals with military pensions. A uniformed person who is expelled continues with his pay because during the period in which he was on active duty, part of his salary was collected to pay for the benefit. The “fictitious death” consumes a small amount per year: R$25 million. This amount was disclosed in June 2024, when the Armed Forces responded to a request for access to information;
- contribution to the health plan – the amounts charged to all members of the Armed Forces will be equalized. Today, there are those who pay up to 3.5% of their salary. But this percentage is lower in several cases. Everything would be equalized once the spending cuts were implemented;
- pension transfer – practice will be limited as much as possible. Although this transfer ended in 2001 (by MP 2215), those who had previously contributed continued to maintain the benefit. For soldiers who contributed, in the event of death, the pension goes to the widow. If the widow dies, the daughters receive it. If one daughter dies, the other gets the full share. This is what we want to end now.
The Minister of Defense, , said on Wednesday (20.nov) that his ministry and the Armed Forces will “set an example” and go to “the sacrifice” when entering into the package that the government is studying to cut spending.
“We will contribute exactly as Minister Haddad asked us to contribute. It means that we are setting an example, a sacrifice to solve the country’s problem, which concerns everyone”said Mucio.
