Union fears cuts will affect INSS surveillance and cleaning services

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The INSS workers’ union fears that cuts in the agency’s budget will interfere with the agencies’ cleaning and surveillance services.

In January of that year, the INSS suffered a cut of BRL 988 million and, at the end of last month, the government still blocked BRL 5.7 billion from the 2022 Budget, which threatens the functioning of public services until the end of the year. year. The amount of the Budget that was allocated to the INSS was not disclosed.

According to a CNN report published this Monday (5), the INSS would have sent a letter to the Federal Budget Secretary, Ariosto Antunes Culau, in which he states that the functioning of the agencies would be suspended from December 7 due to the lack of of resources.

The Ministry of Labor and Social Security, however, released a note this Tuesday (6) in which it states that budgetary restrictions will not cause an interruption in the functioning of the INSS, nor in the payment of benefits and pensions.

Cristiano dos Santos Machado, director of Sinsprev/SP (Union of Civil Servants and Public Workers in Health, Social Security and Social Assistance in the State of São Paulo) and of Fenasps (National Federation of Unions of Health, Labor, Social Security and Social Assistance Workers) , stated that the union was taken by surprise by the news.

Machado says he fears that, with the cut, basic infrastructure services, such as internet, cleaning and surveillance, will be interrupted.

“Our daily life is already a shortage, but it never reached the level of closing an agency due to lack of resources” says Machado.

According to the director, it is common for the work to be carried out in installations with leaks, old furniture and equipment. He also points out that there is a lack of employees to meet the institute’s demands — the last public notice for the INSS competition opened a thousand vacancies for social security technicians, but, according to Fenasps, the deficit of employees reaches 23 thousand.

For Machado, since the beginning of the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) government, the situation has worsened — about a third of the category works in a home office regime and has to meet daily goals, which, according to him, means that employees have to pay for equipment, internet and electricity, and need to work for up to 15 hours a day to meet all demands.

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