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Brazil’s Supreme Court Forms Majority to Void ‘Revisão da Vida Toda’ for INSS Benefits

Payments ordered by courts through April 5, 2024 will not be clawed back.

Overview

  • Six justices backed rapporteur Alexandre de Moraes to cancel the 2022 pro-revision thesis and align the case with the Court’s 2024 mandate that calculations use wages from 1994 onward.
  • Ministers Dias Toffoli, Luiz Fux and Edson Fachin have yet to vote, with the virtual session scheduled to conclude on November 25.
  • The modulation forbids the recovery of amounts paid under provisional or final judicial decisions issued up to April 5, 2024.
  • The Court also waived attorneys’ fees and accounting or expert costs for suits that were pending by the April 5 cutoff.
  • Roughly 140,000 lawsuits are implicated and suspended cases should be released after the judgment, as the government had cited potential exposure of up to R$480 billion if the revision had stood.