
President Lula, a PT candidate for reelection, participated in Brasília in the announcement of a program to clear the INSS queue, stating that the number of applications analyzed per month now exceeds the number of new applications received, with the average waiting period falling to 34 days, despite there still being more than 200,000 applications unanswered for more than 45 days.
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President Lula, PT's re-election candidate, participated in Brasília in the announcement of a program to clear the INSS queue, stating that the number of applications analyzed per month now exceeds the number of new applications received.
President Lula, who is running for re-election with the PT, stayed in Brasília.
At Palácio do Planalto, Lula participated in the announcement of a program to clear the INSS queue. He said that the number of requests analyzed per month became greater than the number of requests received. According to the institute, there are currently more than 200,000 requests that have not been responded to for more than 45 days, the period used to consider that an application is in the queue. But the average term fell to 34 days:
"We have to have an agile way of taking the document and saying: 'Man, you don't have the right. You need to fill it out here, you need to look for it'. Why wait three, four, five different months to say: 'You can't?'. That's the biggest suffering. It's saying no right away to ease the suffering and have the documents they need look for."
After the INSS event, Lula met with advisors at the presidential office.
President Lula, PT's re-election candidate, participates in the announcement of a program to clear the INSS queue — Photo: Jornal Nacional/ Reproduction

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