Overview
- The INSS, in a Tuesday briefing at the National Social Security Council, said the queue fell to about 2.6 million requests in April after peaking near 3.12 million in February.
- Instrução Normativa No. 203, published Friday in the official gazette, now stops a new request for the same benefit while the earlier case or its 30‑day appeal window is open.
- The agency says its system will automatically block duplicate filings and it exempts revision requests of already granted benefits.
- Internal data cited by the INSS show repeated filings drive retrabalho, with 41.41% of requests refiled within 1–30 days and 22.47% between 91–180 days.
- New president Ana Cristina Silveira launched the Acelera INSS program to cut cases pending over 45 days to under 400,000, using mutirões, new hires and automation, which means applicants should prepare complete first submissions because quick refiles are now barred.