Brazilian police probe a pension fraud scheme that stole $1 billion from retirees

Brazil’s AI-powered social security app is wrongly rejecting claims

When Josélia de Brito, a former sugarcane worker from a remote town in northeast Brazil, filed for her retirement benefits through the mandated government app, she expected her claim would...

Brazilian police probe a pension fraud scheme that stole $1 billion from retirees

Brazil’s federal police say they are investigating a scheme that diverted over 6 billion reais — or about $1 billion — from pensions paid by the National Social Security Institute.

Brazil's AI-based social security app, launched in 2018, has cut bureaucracy in some cases but wrongly rejected hundreds of vulnerable people over minor errors

Gabriel Daros / Rest of World: Brazil's AI-based social security app, launched in 2018, has cut bureaucracy in some cases but wrongly rejected hundreds of vulnerable people over minor errors  —  An algorithmic tool meant to reduce bureaucracy is misfiring on complex cases, and vulnerable Brazilians are paying the price.

The Brazilian government uncovered a scheme of fraud that stripped millions of retirees and pensioners of billions of reais. The investigation points to unions and associations that carried out unauthorized debits under the façade of non-existent services. The president of the National Institute of Social Security (INSS), Alessandro Antonio Stefanutto, lost his position, other officials and a federal police allegedly linked to the fact, were arr…

The Federal Police (PF) and the General Controller of the Union (CGU) carried out an operation against a system of fraud at the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) on Wednesday (23). According to the investigation, the suspects charged pensioners and pensioners with irregular monthly fees and deducted them from their benefits without their authorisation. [...] The post Brazil: Billion Fraud at the National Institute of Social Security f…

By Cleber Lourenço The Federal Police and the Office of the Comptroller General launched Operation Sem Desconto on Wednesday (23) to dismantle a scheme of illegal discounts on retirement benefits and pensions paid by the INSS. The information is contained in an official presentation by the federal government to which the report had access. The document details that unions and […]