A group of researchers from the Center for Economic Studies and Policy Studies (Cecon), from the Unicamp Institute of Economics, argues that the accounts that supported the Pension Reform proposal, currently being processed in the Senate, were manipulated and falsified by the government to , according to them, simulate a deficit in the General Social Security Regime that, in reality, would not exist.
This study was first published by the magazine Capital letter on September 18th, in a report based on a technical note from Cecon entitled “Forgery in the official Social Security Reform accounts: the case of the General Social Security Regime”, authored by Pedro Paulo Zahluth Bastos, Ricardo Knudsen, André Luiz Passos Santos and Henrique Sá Earp.
It all started in April, when the Folha de São Paulo newspaper discovered that the calculations and data used by the government in preparing the Reform were confidential. This generated, in addition to a lot of distrust, a lot of criticism in the political world and in the press, since the results of these calculations are the basis of the changes that are being proposed in Social Security, and which directly affect the Brazilian population.
In an interview with Rádio Unicamp, the coordinator of this study, Pedro Bastos, explained how they came to the conclusion that the government manipulated the accounts that supported the New Pension (PEC 06/2019).
Listen to the full interview on your favorite podcast aggregator, or on the RTV Unicamp website:
Shortened link: http://bit.ly/fraude-previdencia
