Lula sanctions law confirming 9% salary adjustment for federal employees
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Food assistance also increased (43%), from R$458 to R$658 per month
Brasilia DF) – President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT) sanctioned the provisional measure that granted a linear adjustment of 9% to all federal employees. MP 1,170/2023 was approved by the Senate, on the 23rd, with additions to the original Executive text.
The increase came into effect on May 1, 2023, and adjusted salaries began to be paid in June. Food aid also increased (43%), from R$458 to R$658 per month, reported Agência Senado. The MP was published after the sanction of Law 14,563, of 2023, which included resources for granting the adjustment in this year’s Budget (Law 14,535, of 2023).
According to the Executive, the correction reaches more than 1.1 million beneficiaries, of which 520 thousand active civil servants, 13.6 thousand public employees, 450 thousand retirees and 167 thousand pensioners. The cost will be in the order of R$9.62 billion for the 2023 financial year and R$13.82 billion annually from 2024 onwards.
One of the changes introduced in the text by the deputies and confirmed by the senators creates another board in the Companhia de Desenvolvimento do Vale do São Francisco (Codevasf), which goes from three to four. The new law also allows political amnestied people who receive monthly economic compensation to choose to use this remuneration to apply for payroll loans. This remuneration must be compensatory in nature and received on a permanent and continuous basis.
*With information from Gazeta do Povo
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