The lifetime pension for unmarried daughters of military personnel was abolished in 2001, but the cost of the benefit is still billions
Detailing the fiscal package’s measures to reduce federal government spending, the Finance Minister, Fernando HaddadHe especially wanted to thank the Armed Forces for having committed to resign. The changes will have a total impact of R$2 billion per year and will include the pension left to family members, but will not end the lifetime pension still paid to unmarried daughters of military personnel.
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“We made an agreement with the Armed Forces, which I thank. They made a last minute gesture, at the request of the minister [da Defesa, José] Múcio and President Lula, and they have made an important contribution”, said Haddad, in the press conference held last Thursday, the 28th.
What changes in military pensions
The lifetime pension for unmarried daughters of soldiers was already abolished in 2001, but the cost of the benefit is still billions of dollars, since soldiers enlisted until 2000 will be able to guarantee this benefit to their daughters when they die. In 2020, the Union spent R$19.3 billion on pensions for military dependents. Most of the money went to his daughters, many of whom were of working age.
Of the 226,000 people receiving this type of benefit in the country, 137,916, or 60% of the total, are daughters of deceased military personnel, according to unpublished data released at the time by the Comptroller General of the Union (CGU), through the Transparency Portal . Struck by Earththe CGU, the Army and the Ministry of Defense have not reported pension spending for the years 2021, 2022 and 2023.
It was expected that this point would be taken up in the spending cuts package, but what was announced was the termination of the transfer of military pension.
Currently, when a soldier’s dependent dies, the pension received is transferred to another living dependent. Therefore, even in the event of the death of one of the dependent family members, the pension continued to be paid in full. With the new rule this possibility will be prohibited.
Other changes
Cuts to some military benefits will generate savings of R$1 billion per year. In total, according to Haddad, the impact of what has been changed should reach R$2 billion, as later explained by the technical team of the Ministry of Finance.
The increased impact of R$1 billion would come from revenue generated by fixation of 3.5% of military personnel’s pay to the Health Fund until January 2026. “In our discussions we looked at it as R$2 billion, so that’s R$1 billion of additional revenue for the military paying that minimum healthcare contribution. And the other three measures combined give something around R$1 billion R$,” explained the technical team.
He was also determined to do so Minimum age of 55 for military personnel to retirewhich will be established progressively. Currently there is only a minimum service life of 35 years.
Another relevant point was the end of imaginary deatha benefit in which dependents of soldiers expelled from the army began to receive a pension, as if they had died.
Source: Terra
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