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Acre faces one of the biggest fiscal challenges of recent decades with the increasing pressure of the state social security deficit. In 2025 alone, the financial breakdown of Social Security should exceed R $ 1 billion, consuming funds that could be destined for public investments.
Acreprevidência’s headquarters. Photo: Neto Lucena/Secom
The problem, which has been dragging on since 1994, was aggravated from 2016, when the state began to live simultaneously with actuarial and financial deficits.
The situation became even more delicate after the Federal Supreme Court (STF) dismissed, in December 2024, a state action that requested the automatic renewal of the Certificate of Social Security Regularity (CRP), essential for the receipt of funds from the Union.
With the decision, the Acre government has until August 25, 2025 to present solutions that ensure the sustainability of the social security regime.
Otherwise, the State may suffer sanctions such as the suspension of voluntary transfers of the Union and the impediment to enter into agreements or obtain financing, as provided for in Law No. 9,717/1998.
“Without this joint action, the state may be prevented from receiving financial resources,” warned the state attorney general, Janete Melo.
The actuarial deficit, which represents the insufficiency of future resources to pay pensions and pensions, already exceeds $ 17 billion, according to a 2025 assessment.
The social security deficit has grown aggressively /Photo: SEPLAN /AC
The financial deficit, the difference between the amount collected and what is paid monthly, has worsened in the last ten years due to the increase in the number of retirees, without the corresponding growth of active taxpayers.
Governor Gladson Cameli points out that the problem is structural and affects not only Acre, but several Brazilian states. “We work incessantly by solutions within the state’s financial reality,” he said.
The number of inactive servers has grown faster than active/photo: Seplan/AC
He assured that the payment of the server leaf will follow as a priority: “Our government has, from the first year of management, an absolute priority: the strengthening of functionalism and the payment up to date.”
Since 2019, the government has adopted measures to contain the advancement of the deficit, such as pension reform, the implementation of the supplementary pension regime, the convening of effective servers and the gradual substitution of temporary contracts in the areas of health and education.
A working group, created in 2021, studies alternatives together with the State Social Security Council. Solutions involve the adoption of amortization plans, contributions from goods and assets, adjustments in the rules of benefits and possible changes in contribution rates.
The situation requires, according to the government, an articulated response between the executive, legislative, judiciary and autonomous bodies. “The problem of social security is everyone, and needs to be faced as a state issue,” concluded Cameli.
