The government of President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) began an internal mapping of management obstacles to try to contain attrition among the electorate in the last year of his term. The assessment, according to interlocutors interviewed by the Folha de S.Paulois that issues with a direct impact on the consumer’s pocket, such as fuel and debt, began to influence the political dispute.
According to the most recent PoderData survey, released on Wednesday (25), Lula reaches the final year of his third term disapproved by more than half of voters. According to the survey, . This is the highest rate recorded since March 2024, when the survey began to divide the assessment of the image between assessment of the government and the president’s personal figure.
To contain debt, the government discusses with the Executive leadership possible changes to r. Ministers Sidônio Palmeira, from the Communication Secretariat, and Gleisi Hoffmann, from Institutional Relations, argue that the change sets a new limit for the amount to be charged in the revolving bill.
According to a Serasa survey, the Brazilian consumer’s financial scenario has undergone profound transformations, and the country has recorded a historic jump in the number of people with credit restrictions, which directly influences family debt.
The number of Brazilians in default rose from 59 million in 2016 to 81.7 million in 2026, which represents a significant increase of 38.1%. Total active debt went from 231 million to 332 million in the same time window. As a result, the average value of debts per person also rose, from R$5,880.02 to R$6,598.13, an increase of 12.2%.
INSS presses agenda
Regarding the queue at the INSS, whose queue still accumulates successive records of accumulated applications, the government estimates a cost of up to R$30 billion to regularize the situation, but has not yet included extra funds in the budget to cover the transfer of new benefits.
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Despite the lack of funds, the government is already taking measures to try to speed up the granting of benefits. This month, the Ministry of Social Security published an ordinance that allows some medical examinations to be carried out via telemedicine.
Telemedicine examinations are authorized for:
- the permanent disability benefit;
- temporary disability benefit;
- Continuous Benefit benefit for people with disabilities (BPC); in addition to
- reassessment and biopsychosocial assessment expertise of disability.
Furthermore, the government increased the expert target from 12 to 15 per day per doctor, in addition to changing the rules of Atestmed, a system that grants sickness benefits only with medical certificates, to allow applications to be rejected only with documentary analysis.
