INSS precatories can only be paid in September

Federal government creditors who expected payment of the precatories for the first half of this month should receive the money, or part of it, only in September. The estimate is from the TRF-1 (Federal Regional Court of the 1st Region), which serves the Federal District and states in the Midwest and North, the only one to provide a time estimate for the report.

The federal courts are awaiting the publication of the CJF (Council of Federal Justice) ruling on the payment of precatories of 2022 to process the claims and initiate deposits into creditors’ accounts. The annual lot includes shares of retirees, pensioners and INSS (National Social Security Institute) policyholders who have gone to court to ask for a review or granting of benefits.

“Everything indicates that it will only be in September that the amounts will be made available to beneficiaries”, said the TRF-1 to Sheet this Thursday (4).

With the suspension, the TRF-3 (Federal Regional Court of the 3rd Region), which serves São Paulo and Mato Grosso do Sul, stated that there is still no defined payment schedule. According to the court, its sectors are working to process the information by the end of August.

Payment schedules with release dates for amounts may vary from court to court.​

The payment was scheduled for the first half of August and was suspended by the CJF after the OAB (Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil) questioned the postponement of amounts owed to lawyers. The impasse began in early July of this year, when federal courts cleared the consultation and lawyers discovered that the payment of the fees was not scheduled for 2022.

In an extraordinary session last Tuesday (2), the federal council decided that the fees must be paid on the same date as the precatory of the plaintiff.

As there will be an increase in beneficiaries, but the amount made available by the federal government for this year’s precatories remains the same, the CJF established a payment ceiling.

If the creditor has more than 180 minimum wages to receive (R$ 218,160, in 2022), the difference will be paid in 2023 to the beneficiary and the lawyer.

Precatórios food, elderly and people with disabilities have priority in the queue and if the creditor has priority, the lawyer will also have it.

For the federal government to pay off all precatories of 2022, the Judiciary had requested R$ 42.8 billion, but received R$ 32.4 billion — 75% of the forecast.

The Federal Court, which pays the precatories of policyholders who won cases against the INSS, received R$ 25.4 billion. The remaining R$ 7 billion are for other areas of the Judiciary.