The Senate plenary should vote this Tuesday (25) on the agenda that provides for full and equal retirement for community health agents (CHAs) and agents to combat endemic diseases (ACEs). If approved, the text must still pass through the Chamber of Deputies.
According to estimates by Congressional technicians, the similar Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC), which deals with the same topic and was approved in the Chamber, is expected to generate a negative fiscal impact of R$11 billion over the next three years.
The Complementary Law Project (PLP) has already been approved by the Economic Affairs Committee (CAE) and the Social Affairs Committee (CAS). Two hours after the nomination of the Union’s attorney general, Jorge Messias, for a vacancy on the Federal Supreme Court, the president of the Senate, Davi Alcolumbre (União-AP) announced that the project will be scheduled for a vote this Tuesday.
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The decision to implement the project surprised the Ministry of Finance, which did not count on this move by the president of the Senate. This Monday, the executive secretary of the department, Dario Durigan, appealed for the matter not to be voted on.
“I make an appeal here, this bill on community health agents has a huge impact on public coffers, it is very bad from an economic point of view and should not be approved in a context that does not have a major discussion, with accounts on the table, assessment of the impact”, he said at a press conference this Monday.
The proposal reestablishes integrality and parity for these servers, which were extinguished in 2003, and a minimum age starting at 50 years old in the transition rule.
The PEC creates differentiated retirement rules due to the risks of the activity, with much more lenient criteria for these employees to be able to retire and generous rules for calculating benefits. Previously, this category was not classified as special retirement.
According to the executive secretary of Finance, the government will work “until the end” to block the project, and will veto it if it is approved in Congress.
“From the point of view of the economic team, it is necessary to question this until the end, make the appeal so that this is not voted on, build political bridges. If a matter of this type, with this size of impact, progresses, we will be forced to veto it, and if the veto falls, go to the Supreme Court so that we can reestablish the precedent of demanding compliance with the country’s basic fiscal rules”, he said.
