The Minas Gerais Court of Justice (TJ-MG) will pay an extra benefit of R $ 75 thousand to state magistrates, in amounts credited on this day, Saturday of Carnival. In addition, judges will receive $ 25,000 extras per month by December, in payments that do not enter the salary ceiling calculation.
The new hangers, which are out of the calculation of the salary ceiling by decision of the judiciary itself, are the result of a negotiation between Judge Luiz Carlos de Azevedo Corrêa Junior, president of the body, and the entity that lobbies in favor of its category, Amagis (Association of Mineiros Magistrates).
Corrêa Junior received this week in his office the president of Amagis, Rosimere Couto, to deal with payments. The photo of the meeting was published on the entity’s social networks. In a message distributed by Couto to magistrates hours later, she reported that the meeting discussed the “passives” of the category.
“In addition to the subsidy to be paid in March 2025, the extra portion of 25 thousand reais will also be credited (as mentioned earlier, effective monthly until December 2025) and another extra portion in the amount of 50 thousand reais, totaling 75 thousand reais – basis in any titled liability,” said the entity’s representative in the message.
Throughout the country, public agencies with budget autonomy-which receive funds raised with taxes, but do not depend on the executive or the legislature’s endorsement on how to spend them-have made payments similar to judges, prosecutors and public defenders.
A Sheet He questioned the TJ-MG about the number of judges benefited from the new hanging and the nature of the payment.
“The remuneration of magistrates and magistrates, servants and servants of the Minas Gerais Court of Justice is supported by current legislation. Some members of the judiciary and the body of servers eventually receive compensation and overdue amounts, corresponding to the time of service and non -payment or enjoyment at an appropriate time,” said the note sent in response.
“Such payments concern duly recognized and authorized liabilities, being made according to the financial availability of the court.”
Given the answer, the report insisted, with a new message, reinforcing the request for the number of beneficiaries to be informed.
“All payments made by the courts in favor of magistrates and servants are informed to the National Council of Justice () and made available on the Transparency Portal,” said the new response, noting that the amounts “are intended for magistrates and servants who, for their personal conditions, hold these credits.”
According to CNJ data, the TJ-MG has 1,072 magistrates, of which 147 are judges.
Amagis, in turn, also states that payments made by TJ-MG are informed to the CNJ and released on the Transparency Portal. “These are legally acquired credits and are intended for magistrates who have this right,” says the entity’s note.
“Amagis also clarifies that, in its permanent performance for the rights of the judiciary, defends, with the direction of the Court of Justice of Minas Gerais, the payment of values that are fair, due and legally recognized,” says the text.
The magistrates calculate alleged late payments, which would be due by accumulation of work or unpaid vacations, and charge these amounts. The understanding was born of a CNJ recommendation of September 2020.
The (Federal Supreme Court) has ruled that these payments are indemnity and, therefore, are not considered salaries, and may be out of calculating the ceiling of functionalism, which is $ 44,000.
In São Paulo, for example, as the Sheet informed.
The São Paulo court. In December last year, the Goiás TJ started to make the same funds collection.
The series of criticism of similar practices across the country made the president of the Supreme Court speak in defense of the magistrates, at the opening of the judicial year, in the plenary of the Court. He said criticism of spending.
Rafael Rodrigues Viegas, professor at FGV and researcher at INCT Qualigov and ENAP (National School of Public Administration), evaluates that the discussion of payments above the ceiling has arrived at Congress accelerated the search for benefits by these categories.
“Most magistrates have received additional values added to base salary, making them often exceed the constitutional ceiling. If before these payments were sporadic, they have now become a recurring practice that violates the constitution and generates distortions,” he says.
“We observed an unprecedented advance of the judiciary on the public fund, compromising not only the credibility of justice,” follows the researcher. “The mere possibility that supersalaries will be discussed at the National Congress has accelerated this advance.”
“In Brazil, there are states, such as MG, in fiscal crisis, and a significant part of the population faces serious difficulties to obtain the minimum existential. Still, the public budget has been captured by elite careers,” he says.
In the researcher’s assessment, “Supersalaries’ maintenance is indefensible. Combating these privileges requires greater transparency, supervision and a review of the rules that allow the indiscriminate granting of additional benefits, to ensure that remuneration in the public service, as in the case of the judiciary, respects the Constitution.”
