Senate pays around R$3 million per month in pensions to single daughters of civil servants
According to Revista Oeste, 132 women receive the benefit, and 16 of them have income above the constitutional ceiling, with a ceiling reduction applied by the Senate.
BY THE X-TRADER NEWS NEWSROOM · REPORTING FROM REVISTA OESTE · 2 MIN
The Senate maintains a benefit that costs around R$3 million per month, according to a survey published by Revista Oeste. The payments are pensions intended for single daughters of former servants of the House.
Year-to-date, the bill reaches around R$36 million. According to the same report, 132 women receive the amount.
In 16 of these cases, gross income exceeds the constitutional ceiling of R$46,300. In these situations, the Senate applies the ceiling reduction, a mechanism that limits the total received to the maximum amount permitted by law.
Some pensioners have been receiving the benefit for decades, and accumulations over this time are estimated at millions of reais. There are pensions that reach R$46 thousand.
The survey is by Lúcio Vaz and was published by Gazeta do Povo on Sunday, the 1st, which gave the topic new repercussions.
The case reignites the discussion about personnel expenses and privileges in the public service, an issue that the market follows mainly from the fiscal side.
What changes for the investor
Based on the numbers released, the benefit has little weight in public accounts, and the facts found do not bring any cutting measures. The possible effect is indirect: episodes like this fuel the debate about expense control, which influences the perception of fiscal risk, and this perception usually weighs on interest rates and exchange rates. For those who follow the stock market, the Nasdaq or the dollar, what tends to matter are concrete decisions by the government and Congress, and not an isolated report.
Automatically translated from Portuguese.
