Brazil’s Audit Court Orders INSS to Correct Improper BPC Payments
Brazil's federal audit court, the TCU, has ordered the social-security institute to correct improper BPC payments within 180 days. The ruling, Acordao 451/2025-Plenario, flagged cases where the means-tested welfare benefit was drawn alongside another benefit, and estimated that about 6.3% of recipients had income above the legal limit, an improper cost near R$5 billion a year. The BPC reaches…
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