Disabled and informal caregivers are losing support. Social Security does not explain what changed

Social Security started to include support subsidies as declared income, although there was no change in law.

The National Association of Informal Caregivers (ANCI) and the Different Citizen Movement (MCD) have received hundreds of complaints from families who claim to be losing social support. At issue is the new inclusion, by social security, of benefits such as the informal caregiver support, the complement to dependence and even contributions from voluntary social insurance as declared income, despite the law has not been changed.

According to the reports, this interpretation is affecting the level of family allowance, the calculation of the IRS and even the charges paid to the CACI – Activity Centers and training for inclusion. “Several informal caregivers have seen their changed to less favorablebecause social security is considering the informal caregiver’s allowance as a dependent work performance ”, denounces the MCD to.

The movement cites Law No. 100/2019, which classifies the informal caregiver support as a non -contributory social benefit, and the IRS Code, which expressly excludes from taxation The benefits attributed in situations of economic lack, disability or dependence.

Miguel Azevedo, MCD coordinator, ensures that there are “hundreds of affected people” and says awaiting explanations of social security and the tax authority. According to the leader, values ​​related to caregiver subsidies and dependence complement have Pre-named in model 3 of IRSaffecting contributors who, in many cases, have never carried out work activity.

The situation has already arrived in Parliament. PCP and BE asked for clarification from the government, while PS and arrives promised to advance in the same direction. The MCD recalls that the PSD, when in opposition, presented proposals to prevent this type of taxationbut nothing has been changed after taking governing functions.

Anci also confirms the severity of the problem. The president, Liliana Gonçalves, says she receives weekly contacts from families in a situation of economic vulnerability who have seen their installments accounted for as income. “I don’t realize What is the legal support behind this question”, He says, underlining the possibility of having existed an internal guidance of social security.

ACI will formalize requests for clarification, warning that if people have been harmed, must be reimbursed. “It is impossible for this to be cool,” reinforces Gonçalves.