Close to 300,000 could lose pensions

Close to 300,000 people could lose their State pensions in October if they do not update their information with the Brazilian government. The Federal government is undergoing an update process in order to try to eliminate irregular pensioners from its list. People with falsified documents and/or the family of people who received the benefit but who may have already died are the main targets. A total of 2.9 million people with their registration number ending in 1 or 2 had to update their data until today. 280,000 have failed to do so, according to government officials. The current census began in April, with 14.7 million people being called to update their information.