The provided for the expected moral damage is $ 50 thousand, while the pension will have the value of the RGPS ceiling, currently set at $ 8.1 thousand
The National Congress has overturned the total veto of President Lula to the project which aims to guarantee compensation for a moral damage of $ 50,000 and a special monthly pension for children with congenital syndrome associated with Zika virus infection (Scz). The vote took place on Tuesday 17, after five months of uncertainties and intense mobilization by families who defend this right.
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“It is a milestone in our country. A group of mothers met to fight for such an important agenda, for the visibility we are having at this moment, “says Nadia Silva, the 8 -year -old mother of Lorena, who is also director of the Lotus association, who welcomes children with Zika syndrome in syndrome syndrome.
Like the Earth He showed at the beginning of the year, President Lula made two important movements around the January theme. Firstly, he took the veto to this bill, which since 2015. Therefore he established the financial support, of a single episode, for an amount of $ 60,000 to these same families through a temporary measure.
At the time, the report listened to Nadia, who considered the “unresolved and cruel” veto. This is because to maintain multidisciplinary therapies and contours that your daughter needs, the expenses are many.
And she is not the only one. Lorena is one of the 1,828 children who had confirmed the congenital infection of Zika, according to data from the Ministry of Health. Also according to the Ministry, 261 deaths were recorded from 2015 to 2023.
The congenital syndrome associated with the Zika virus infection (Scz) was discovered in 2015. The main form of transmission is by Mosquito Female Bite Aedes Aegypti, the same of the Dengue. That is, eight years ago, when Nadia gave birth to Lorena, everything was very recent.
Now, with Hope, Nadia says it is rewarding to receive state recognition. “He recognized from the reversal of this veto that made a mistake and that families deserve and need this social repair, to offer quality of life and dignity for our children and affected families,” he explains, considering that fighting the vector of the virus is the responsibility of a government.
“We are very happy, but also with a lot of foot on the floor, knowing and being aware of the step by step that we will still go. We know that there is a way to go, we believe it is smaller than the steps we have already taken in these ten years, but we believe that the victory will arrive,” says Nadia.
What was made?
Now, what is planned is that children with congenital syndrome associated with the Zika virus infection (Scz) can claim a special monthly tax, for life and income, in the value of the roof of the general social security regime (RGPS), currently set in R $ 8,157.41. This beyond compensation for the moral damage of R $ 50 thousand to families.
The text that has returned to the congress also increases maternity leave and maternity salary of mothers, including Foster, children with syndrome. The paternity leave, in turn, has been expanded in 20 days.
Even so, there are still points around the cause that must be clarified. In January, parallel to the presidential veto, Lula established a single financial support of the episode, for an amount of $ 60,000 to these same families through a temporary measure. The support was regulated in a concierge published in May, with the registration open to families to claim their rights.
Nadia even recorded, but said she didn’t have a return yet – as well as all the mothers he spoke about on the subject.
THE Earth He called the Ministry of Health and the National Institute of Social Security (IS) in search of further information on the benefit and if it will remain active with the reversal of compensation for moral damage and special pension, but did not respond until the publication of this issue. The space is still open.
From the overturning project of the veto: understand the temporal sequence
In 2015The then deputy Mara Gabrilli – now Senator – prepared a bill (3974/2015) On the right to compensation for moral damage and life pension for disabled people deriving from the congenital syndrome associated with Zika virus infection.
In 2020So President Jair Bolsonaro signed a provisional measure, converted into law (13.985/2020), which established a special and life pension, for the amount of a minimum wage, intended for children with congenital Zika virus syndrome born between 2015 and 2019. In this case only families assisted by the continuous benefits program (BPC) were taken into consideration.
In December 2024The PL on the R $ 50,000 allowance to these families, together with the offer of a vital pension equivalent to the highest salary of the general social security program (RGP) in addition to the assisted BPC, voted for its final version of the text that has voted and approved in the Chamber. The project was sent to President Lula – who, in turn, would have chosen to sanction or veto, in a total or partial way, the project.
In January 2025He determined President Lula Full veto to the PL in question. The presidency of the Republic declared that, ears, the ministries of finance; Planning and budget; Social development and assistance, family and hunger combat; Social security; Human rights and citizenship; And the prosecutor General of the Union manifested himself through the veto.
Economic issues have been used as arguments, as it is a proposal that “creates continuous compulsory and tax benefits and expands social security, without the due estimate of the budget and financial impact, the identification of the source of financing, the indication of compensation and without the fixation of a term for the tax benefit”.
The veto also underlined that “the proposal differs from the biopsicosocial approach to disability, contrary to the international convention on the rights of people with disabilities and creates a non -isalomic treatment in relation to other people with disabilities”. In order for a veto to be rejected, he takes the vote of the absolute majority of deputies and senators.
Still in JanuaryOn the same day, Lula published a provisional measure in the Federal Official Gazette (1.287/2025) Institute of a single financial support of R $ 60 thousand, to people with disabilities due to the congenital syndrome associated with the Zika virus infection. To receive, it will be necessary to demonstrate the relationship between congenital syndrome and contamination of parents by the Zika virus during pregnancy, as well as the discovery of the child’s shortage. In MayThe joint order no. 53 was published in the Federal Official Gazette and the families were able to enter the documentation in search of the help.
THE Earth He asked the IS data from how many families, until June this year, they entered the trial and how many have already been contemplated. The space will be updated in case of response.
Source: Terra
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