In December, the (Attorney General of the Union) filed two new batches of legal actions against associations and entities involved in the (National Social Security Institute) to demand the return of R$135 million to the Union.
The fourth batch, filed this week, involved regressive actions against (National Confederation of Rural Workers, Farmers and Family Farmers), Sinab (National Union of Retirees of Brazil), Interstate Federation of Railway Workers, Contraf (National Confederation of Workers in Family Farming), Astre (Association of Traffic Servants of the Central West Railway), SindaPB (Union of Retirees and Pensioners of Brazil), Unidos (Instituto de Longevidade Mongeral Aegon) and Sintapi-CUT (National Union of Retired Workers and Pensioners and Elderly).
The objective is for them to return amounts already paid by the INSS to retirees and pensioners who were victims of unauthorized association discounts.
The actions are based on the right of return from the INSS, which paid the victims amounts that would have been owed by the entities and associations. It is also the result of the agreement made at the (Supreme Federal Court) in July, which made it possible to compensate those affected by undue discounts.
According to AGU, the values refer to payments made until November and may be updated. New regressive actions may be filed as the INSS consolidates data relating to other payments.
The Union’s attorney general, , states that the filing of the latest batch of actions proves that the AGU “acts in a technical, responsible and safe manner, guided exclusively by the body of evidence available, without protecting or persecuting any entity, always in defense of federal public assets”.
At the beginning of December, the agency had filed a third batch of eight precautionary actions that requested the blocking of assets belonging to associations and unions. The objective was to guarantee the payment of penalties that might be applied and the reimbursement of estimated losses.
So far, the AGU has asked for the blocking of R$6.6 billion from associations, individuals and legal entities through 37 precautionary actions filed.
Preliminary decisions have already blocked R$4.4 billion, of which R$514 million has already been blocked through the Judiciary’s asset search system.
According to the most recent data, the INSS has already reimbursed R$2.74 billion to more than 4 million beneficiaries who challenged the discounts made on their benefits.
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