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…
Brazil's federal audit court, known as the Tribunal de Contas da Uniao, has ordered the social-security institute, INSS, to correct improper BPC payments within 180 days. The ruling comes amid a separate investigation into unauthorized deductions from retirees' and pensioners' payments, estimated to have cost around R$6.3 billion between 2019 and 2024.
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