Ministers determined that the current formula should achieve inflation or the FGTS Board of Trustees should create compensation
The (Supreme Federal Court) reaffirmed that the accounts of the (Service Time Guarantee Fund) must be corrected by the IPCA (Broad National Consumer Price Index). The deliberation validated the correction for the inflation indicator only for deposits made after June 2024.
The ministers, in a decision taken on Monday (16.Feb.2026), maintained the current calculation — which combines interest of 3% per year, distribution of profits and the TR (Reference Rate) — but determined that this set must, necessarily, reach the value of the IPCA. If the formula does not achieve inflation, it will be up to the FGTS Board of Trustees to define a compensation mechanism.
The decision reinforces the ministers’ rejection, in 2024, of the use of the TR as a mechanism for updating the fund’s deposits. TR was historically used to correct values. Its income is close to zero. Ten years earlier, in 2014, the party filed a lawsuit with the STF and argued that the TR correction does not adequately remunerate workers.
The trial specifically analyzed an account holder’s appeal against the decision of the Federal Court of Paraíba. The (Advocacia-Geral da União) participated in the process, presenting a calculation proposal to the Supreme Court.
After the action in the Supreme Court, laws came into force establishing the correction with interest of 3% per year, which includes an increase in the distribution of the fund’s profits and updating by the TR. The correction remained lower than inflation. In practice, the decision impacts all workers with FGTS accounts.
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