Request for death pension can also be made via registry offices during death registration
The president of the (National Social Security Institute), Alessandro Stefanutto, said, in an interview with Poder360that registry offices located in hospitals will be able to request maternity leave (maternity pay) during the registration of the birth of children. The granting of the benefit will be done automatically, according to him, which reduces the waiting list.
The measure will be adopted from February to March this year. The waiting time for maternity pay to be granted varies from region to region, but, according to the president of Stefanutto, it is around 1 to 2 months.
He gave an interview to Poder360 on Friday (17.Jan.2025). He was appointed to the position on July 5, 2023, replacing , who held the position on an interim basis. The agency is linked to the Ministry of Social Security, headed by .
“It’s not just an advantage for the INSS. It is a delivery to society. Society will have faster and safer delivery”said Stefanutto about automatic maternity pay via notary offices.
According to the president of the INSS, permission for mothers to request maternity leave in hospitals will begin in the coming months. In his assessment, the measure will “take away the discomfort of the insured”.
The registration of sons and daughters can now be carried out with registry office staff located in hospitals. A, from 1994, defines that the notary, notary and registration officer are professionals with rights endowed with public faith. The same worker will be responsible for forwarding the benefit request to the INSS.
“This guy over there [no hospital] will make the application for her [a mãe]. She leaves there with the application made”he stated. The request will be forwarded “automatic”because the person at the registry office has public faith.
“[A mãe] You’ll get out of there [do hospital] already with the benefit granted”, these. “If the father registered the baby, and the mother has not yet left the hospital, it may be [tenha o benefício] even before arriving home. The fact is that it won’t take months.”these.
Stefanutto stated that the waiting time currently for maternity leave is 1 to 2 months. The request made by the registry offices is one of the measures to reduce the queue for INSS social security benefits. Furthermore, it also avoids family expenses with intermediaries who connect parents with the public body.
The INSS will pay the notary offices to carry out the services. He compared the format with the organization’s partnership with the Post Office, which allows beneficiaries due to temporary incapacity to deliver Atestmed to state-owned agencies.
“We will compensate. We will pay, a little, but we will pay. [O funcionário do cartório] He’s a guy who has public faith and that helps me, because when he makes the request, it (the insured) answers questions. […] This application will be processed automatically. If you register at 1 am at the registry office, because he is on shift, you will already be processed. I won’t need a server [público] to process”these.
DEATH AT THE NOTARY OFFICE
Notary offices may also request a pension from the insured person automatically when registering a person’s death. For the president of the INSS, this is a measure that also helps people in times of pain. “The person has already lost their father, the woman has lost her husband. It’s already a problem. And then you would still have to come to the INSS and ask for the pension.”these.
Stefanutto stated that not all applications will be automated, because there are more complex cases. She cited an example in which a woman can register the death of a man who has more than one marital relationship, and other women can also request the benefit. “But this is a minority”these.
According to Stefanutto, there are 1.2 million death pension requests made per year. The measure will mean that the vast majority will be done in registry offices.
“When I stop making 1.2 million benefits, I will be saving 1 month of applications, so I will have 11 months of applications, with more than 50% productivity and bonus”he declared.
BENEFIT INTERMEDIARIES
The president of the INSS defended that the measures could also prevent the work of intermediaries who could take advantage of families to earn money from the applications.
“When you take a measure like this, you save resources. There are more people left to do other, more complex work, delivering better benefits to society and also ending up taking away some consequences. When the INSS delivers it quickly to the person, they don’t need to look for an intermediary”he declared.
