This was the first time the president was publicly spoken on the matter, which diverted $ 6.3 billion retirement
The president (PT) spoke this Wednesday (30.br.2025) that the His government dismantled a criminal scheme of improper charges against retirees and pensioners. It referred to the investigation of the deviation of up to R $ 6.3 billion retirements from the INSS (National Institute of Social Security).
“Last week, our government, through the Comptroller General of the Union and the Federal Police, dismantled a criminal charging scheme against retirees and pensioners, which had been operating since 2019. I determined to the Union’s General Advocacy that the associations that practiced illegal charges are processed and forced to reimburse people who were injured.”he said.
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This was the first time the chief executive spoke publicly about the matter. On the night of this 4th (30.abr), for the presidency of the institute, after ordering the former president, Alessandro Stefanutto.
Despite the statement, Lula avoided explaining how the government will compensate the retirees. Until April 24, the last satisfaction was given by the Minister of CGU (Comptroller General of the Union), Vinícius de Carvalho. One of the alternatives was to block $ 2 billion of investigated institutions and people linked to them.
The government states that of the 40 million people benefited by the INSS, 6 million had discounts. What is not known is still how many of these were irregular. The CGU (Comptroller General of the Union) says that 97.6% of INSS retirees and pensioners had direct discounts not authorized in their benefits to pay unions and associations.
Operation “No Discount”
PF launched on April 23 to investigate an improper discount scheme in retirement and INSS pensions. The operation fulfilled 211 search and seizure court orders and 6 temporary arrest warrants in the Federal District and 13 states.
According to the PF, the investigation identified the existence of irregularities related to the discounts of associative monthly payments applied to social security benefits, especially retirement and pensions, granted by the INSS.
The government reported that by 2023 the CGU began a series of findings on the increase in the number of entities and discounted values of retirees. From this process, audits were made in 29 entities that had ACTs (technical cooperation agreements) with the INSS. There were also interviews with 1,300 retirees who had payroll discounts.
According to the government, the CGU identified that the entities had no operational structure to provide the services they offered to the beneficiaries and that, of the interviewees, most had not authorized the discounts. The controllership also identified that 70% of the 29 entities analyzed had not delivered full documentation to the INSS.
In the operation, 6 people were removed from their duties. Among them, . According to Minister Gleisi Hoffmann, Lula will appoint a new president for the position.
This is the list of people who were removed from their positions in the INSS:
- Alessandro Stefanutto – President (who later resigned);
- Virgílio Ribeiro de Oliveira Filho -INSS Attorney General;
- Vanderlei Barbosa dos Santos – Director of Benefits with the Citizen;
- Young gathers faise spiecker -General Coordinator of customer service support;
- JUCIMAR FONSECA DA SILVA -General Coordinator of Payments and Benefits;
- federal police – Identity was not disclosed.
Nod to trade union centrals
This is the second time this year that the petista makes an official statement in a national network. The 1st was on February 24, when To talk about government programs, such as the foot and the popular pharmacy.
This year, Lula May 1st acts called by union centrals. In 2024, the celebration of Labor Day had an audience of less than 2,000 people and was classified by the petista as “Badly summoned.”
In order not to be in debt with a face -to -face contact with the trade union movement, Lula received representatives at the Planalto Palace on Tuesday (29.abr). He defended the advance in the congress of labor agenda, such as the end of the 6 x 1 scale, the reduction of the working day from 44 hours to 40 hours per week and the approval of the PL (Bill) that exempts from the income tax of those who earn up to R $ 5,000.
On the Thursday (1st.MAI), 3 ministers will the manifestation of CTB (Central of Workers of Brazil), CSB (Central of Brazilian Unions), Força Sindical, UGT (General Union of Workers), NCST (New Workers’ Union Central) and Public. They are: Luiz Marinho (employment and work), Márcio Macêdo (General Secretariat) and Cida Gonçalves (women). The mobilization will be held at the Campo de Bagatelle Square, in the north of the state capital, from 11am.
CUT (Single Workers’ Central) was invited to participate, but will do another act in São Bernardo do Campo, in ABC Paulista, Lula’s political cradle – which was metallurgical.
