Prescription and Decadence at INSS: Important Deadlines for 2026
The prescription and decadence deadlines at INSS (Brazil’s National Social Security Institute) can cost you your rights if you don’t act in time, so it is essential to know them.
INSS Membership Dues Deductions: Deadline Closed and How to Check Your Status
The deadline to contest membership dues deductions and request reimbursement under the INSS administrative settlement ended on June 20, 2026. Here is where the service stands now and which official channels to use.
The “Entire Working Life” Recalculation: Where Things Stand After the STF Decisions
After the STF’s 2024 and 2025 decisions, the “entire working life” recalculation (revisão da vida toda) is no longer available as a general legal thesis. Earlier case situations and the modulation of effects require individual analysis.
The “Whole-Life Review”: Where Things Stand Now and Why Each Case Needs Individual Analysis
Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court has overruled the so-called “whole-life review” as a general theory for recalculating benefits. The 2024 and 2025 decisions held that the transition rule is mandatory; earlier procedural situations and the court’s modulation of effects require case-by-case analysis.
INSS “Pente-Fino” Review in 2026: How It Works and What to Do
The INSS (Brazil’s National Social Security Institute) “pente-fino” is a periodic review of benefits to check whether the requirements for receiving them are still being met. Beneficiaries who skip a summons or fail to prove they meet the criteria may have their benefits canceled.
Social Security Cap Review: How Benefit Recalculation Works
The social security cap review allows for the recalculation of benefits whose initial monthly amount was limited by the RGPS (Brazil’s General Social Security Regime) cap in effect at the time of the 1998 and 2003 constitutional amendments. A request requires a technical analysis of your contribution history, compliance with the forfeiture deadline, and precise documentary proof of the distortion found in the base calculation period.
AI in the Automatic Review of Social Security Benefits
Artificial intelligence is already changing how INSS (Brazil’s National Social Security Institute) and the courts review social security benefits, affecting millions of insured people throughout Brazil.
INSS Benefit Cap Table: Values From 1994 to 2026
The INSS (Brazil’s National Social Security Institute) cap table records the maximum benefit amounts since 1994. It is an essential reference for benefit reviews and retirement planning.
Desaposentação and Reaposentação: What Current Case Law Says
For more than a decade, courts were divided over whether a retiree could renounce a benefit already being paid in order to obtain a better one based on later contributions. Then Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court set a binding thesis that completely redrew the case law on the subject. The current landscape combines settled prohibitions, important conceptual distinctions, and the deep effects of the pension reform.
INSS Benefit Cuts in 2026: Your Rights and How to Appeal
INSS Benefit Cuts in 2026: Your Rights and How to Appeal. Having your social security benefit cut off by the INSS (Brazil’s National Social Security Institute) is one of the most distressing situations for anyone who depends on that income.
Desaposentação: What the STF Decided and the Alternatives in 2026
The STF banned desaposentação in 2016. The whole-life review has been overturned as a general rule, and any errors in your benefit require an individual analysis.
Which Benefits Can INSS Cut in 2026? Your Rights
Which Benefits Can INSS (Brazil’s National Social Security Institute) Cut in 2026? Your Rights. The INSS “pente-fino” (fine-tooth-comb) review covered more than 800,000 disability benefits in 2023 alone, according to the agency’s own data ( Ministry of Social Security, 2024). Many insured people lost payments without understanding why.
Overdue INSS Payments: How to Calculate and Collect Them
Overdue INSS payments are unpaid installments adjusted by the INPC. They are owed when a benefit is granted late or when a denial is later reversed retroactively.
Whole-Life Review: What Changed After the STF Rulings
The STF (Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court) has overturned the whole-life review as a general thesis. Its 2024 and 2025 rulings reaffirmed that the transition rule is mandatory; situations covered by the modulation of effects require individual analysis.
Retirement Benefit Review: The 10-Year Forfeiture Deadline and When a Review Is Allowed
Learn everything about retirement benefit review: requirements, how the amount is calculated, required documents and how to apply. Expert guidance in Law…
