Monday, May 2, 2011

Brazil paradise "younger widows"

Rio de Janeiro Correspondent - Women under 40 who could shed tears, crocodile or genuine, evoking the memory of their deceased husbands old, are becoming more numerous. Their expensive - very expensive - extinct, old retirees, since they are assured beyond beautiful days by allowing them to collect throughout their lives a comfortable pension.

In terms of retirement, Brazil is one of the most lenient and most generous in the world. The amount that the pensioner was receiving disappeared is fully transferred to the benefit of his relatives: spouse, more often, or, failing that, children under 21 years old, his parents or his brothers or sisters minors.

Once certified the death, the survivor is not subject to any conditions or restricted by any criteria. It is not necessary that the couple was married, stable union is sufficient. So what if this union was short-lived or if the beneficiary is a very tender age! No minimum is required for living together.

Number of "younger widows" receive a pension after only accompanied the end of life in their old or sick husband. And they continue to receive it if they remarry. Whatever, if the deceased assured of a minimum pension, has contributed little for retirement or whether his widow, she is working or not, has the means to support herself.

Again, the state imposes no attribution clause. Hence the flourishing of arranged marriages between old men and young women. According to officials of the Brazilian social security, some marauding teams of lawyers in hospitals to encourage men sick, terminally ill to wed with young brides.

Other persuade them to adopt children as "little-son" or "nephews" so that they can receive a monthly income until their majority. Now, the "younger widows" are in the crosshairs of the Treasury. The government Dilma Rousseff refines a bill which, as in most countries, strictly supervise the award of survivor benefits by imposing rules: minimum duration of the union and contributions, there is a dependence economic, prohibition of accumulated pension and other retirement.

This reform would relieve the state coffers. Survivors' pensions represent more than 3% of gross domestic product is three times the international average. As far as the budget for the primary and secondary education, or more than half of all public investment made in 2010. The future law preserves the rights acquired by "younger widows".

Meanwhile, those who aspire to this comfortable status must hurry to marry the old man advantage of their choice. Jean-Pierre Langellier Article published in the edition of 03.05.11

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