Four more entities should be the subject of process on INSS fraud
The Minister of the Attorney General of the Union (AGU), Jorge Messias, said, on Friday (16), that four more associative entities should be included in the process by possible fraud in pensions paid by the National Institute of Social Security (INSS). He did not say, however, what the amount collected by these entities over the years should be the target of precautionary blocking measures.
Last week, AGU asked the Federal Court to block R $ 2.56 billion in assets of 12 associative entities. They constitute the “core of fraud”, being the target of the largest number of complaints by INSS insured.
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“Right now, we have 12 entities, it is possible that we already establish a lot of four other entities, at least,” Messiah told Agência Brasil, explaining that the volume of blocked resources is due to the evidence that discounts are mostly undue.
The Federal Police (PF) and the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU) launched last month the operation without discount, which investigates the irregular discount, via the payroll of the INSS, monthly fees of associative entities of retirees and pensioners. The CGU reported that between 2017 and 2019, an increase in the number of discounts and complaints from beneficiaries that had not authorized the discounts on tuition was recorded.
According to Messiah, there is a large volume of entities that were created, from 2019, with the purpose of defrauding, that is, not to offer any benefit to the associate. Initial figures presented by PF report that R $ 6.3 billion of associative discounts made between 2019 and 2024 are suspected of fraud.
Retirees and INSS pensioners have already registered more than 1 million requests for reimbursement of unauthorized discounts made by associative entities. The formalization of the contestation can be done by the my INSS platform or by the 135 telephone service channel.
About 9 million policyholders have been notified since Tuesday (13) about discounts by entities and associations. Now it is possible to know the name of the entity to which the retiree or pensioner who had a discount is linked, through the service consult discounts of associative entities, available in the application.
“With the data that retirees, who are collaborating with us at this time, are passing on, we have conditions and elements of seeking more goods from other entities that would also be potentially involved in this fraud,” explained the Minister of AGU.
