Overview
- The INSS held a nationwide mutirão on the weekend of Aug 29–30 to clear backlog by offering roughly 25,000 scheduled appointments for perícia médica (medical exams) and avaliação social (social assessments).
- All attendances require pre-booking through the Meu INSS website or app or by calling the central 135 line and availability is updated in real time as bookings fill.
- States differ in the mix of services: Bahia was allocated 3,492 appointments with Salvador listing 912 slots (582 perícia, 330 avaliação social), while Rio Grande do Norte offered 625 social-evaluation slots only and no perícia this weekend.
- Local schedules show rapid change and some units are already full — examples include Brumado and Feira de Santana and Salvador’s avaliação social — and Santarém’s advertised perícia slots conflict across sources (local report: 340 vs national list: 1,536).
- For beneficiaries this means checking Meu INSS or calling 135 before traveling, as the mutirão can speed some benefit decisions but uneven local capacity may leave many still waiting and require further rounds of targeted actions.