Observation (CEACR) - adopted 2013, published 103rd ILC session (2014)

Equality of Treatment (Social Security) Convention, 1962 (No. 118) - Brazil (Ratification: 1969)

Article 5 of the Convention. Payment of benefits abroad. The Government’s report received in September 2012, states that, in accordance with the rules established under the General Social Security Regime, insured persons are guaranteed payment of benefits irrespective of their country of residence; these benefits are paid through the banking network; in case the insured person lives in a country to which Brazil does not transfer payments of benefits, a legal representative must be nominated in Brazil. The Committee invites the Government to further clarify these statements by providing detailed reply to its previous observation of 2009, which found that rules for payment of benefits abroad under section 312 of the Social Security Regulations of 1999 have not yet been established; a bank to transfer benefits abroad also has not yet been established due to a tender process launched in 2000; and no payments were transferred to beneficiaries residing abroad, with the exception of Spain, Greece and Portugal.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2014.]