Chamber approves pension for children of women victims of femicide

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The budget impact should be BRL 10.52 million this year, BRL 11.15 million in 2024 and BRL 11.82 million in 2025

The Chamber of Deputies approved, this Thursday (9), the proposal that establishes a pension for children and adolescents whose mother was a victim of femicide. The text goes on for analysis in the Senate.

Bill 976/22 was authored by congresswoman Maria do Rosário (PT-RS) and seven other PT parliamentarians. The initiative was approved in the form of the substitute presented by the rapporteur, Deputy Captain Alberto Neto (PL-AM). “It brought improvements, preserving the original suggestion as much as possible”, highlighted Captain Alberto Neto.

The special pension, totaling one minimum wage (R$ 1,320 today), will be allocated to all biological or adopted children and dependents whose monthly family income per capita is equal to or less than 25% of the minimum wage (R$330). The benefit will be terminated if the judicial process does not prove femicide.

Payment up to 18 years

According to the approved text, the special pension, with the exception of the option right, will not be accumulated with any other social security benefits and must be paid until the children or dependents reach 18 years of age.

In the event of the death of one of the beneficiaries, the quota must be reverted to the others.

Budget Impact

The budgetary and financial impact was estimated at BRL 10.52 million this year, BRL 11.15 million in 2024 and BRL 11.82 million in 2025. According to the rapporteur, as these amounts will have little effect on indemnities and special pensions responsibility of the Union, there was no need to suggest compensation.

The authors of the original text state that the State must make up for the absence of the mother in cases of femicide. “Children and adolescents cannot, for violent reasons, be deprived of dignified conditions of existence”, they state in the text that accompanies the proposal.

“The report by Deputy Captain Alberto Neto was very well constructed”, said Maria do Rosário, rapporteur, in 2015, of the initiative that typified femicide in the country.

The deputy thanked the support of the women’s bench and party leaders in defending the reception and protection of children and dependents of the victims. “We have to move towards the moment of no femicide, because this crime cannot be seen as something natural”, emphasized Maria do Rosário. “But, given the official numbers, we are left with, above all in the fight against violence against women, the responsibility to protect child victims,” she said.

* With information from the Câmara de Notícias Agency

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