Audit of State and Municipal Social Security to be Carried Out Following INSS Scandal

Photo: Recruitment/Social Network The humorist Maurício Meirelles used his account in X/Twitter to comment, in an ironic tone, on the corruption scandal involving the National Institute of Social Security (INSS). Publications were made in the middle of a growing impact on social networks on the suspicions of billions of fraud in Social Predominance. Hearings and investigations indicate that, only in 2023, damages with unpaid payments and corrupt…

Operation of the Federal Police revealed a scheme that dropped R$ 6.3 billion. The President of INSS and the Minister of Prevention left the charges after the scandal.

The scheme of undue discounts investigated by the PF (Federal Police) on April 23, 2025 has the potential to be the biggest social security fraud since the 1990s. The comparison is made by Luis Felipe Lopes Martins, a professor at the Center for Research in Law and Economics at FGV (Fundação Getúlio Vargas) Rio. Martins compares the investigation with the case of former social security attorney Jorgina de Freitas, convicted of embezzling R$2 bil…

Amid the recent scandal at the National Social Security Institute (INSS), the Court of Auditors of the State of São Paulo (TCE-SP) announced on Wednesday that it would conduct an audit of the agencies responsible for paying pensions in the state. The initiative aims to strengthen oversight of São Paulo Previdência (SPPrev), which manages the pensions of state employees, and of the 218 municipal pension institutes. During the plenary session of t…