Federal public servants will have a 51.9% increase in food allowance starting next month. With the measure, the benefit increases from R$658 to R$1,000. 
The health allowance for employees, which is currently R$144.38, will be readjusted to around R$215 and the daycare allowance increases from R$321 to R$484.90.
The values were finalized this Thursday (25) in an agreement between the entities representing employees and the federal government, through the Labor Relations Secretariat of the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services (SRT/MGI). The government also committed to implementing by July all specific career tables that have not yet been opened within the scope of the National Permanent Negotiation Table.
According to the ministry, the increase in food assistance results in an income gain of more than 4.5% for more than 200,000 active employees who earn up to R$9,000 per month. Employees with the lowest salaries and who simultaneously receive the three benefits (food, health and daycare) will have an increase of up to 23% in their total remuneration.
MGI Labor Relations Secretary, José Lopez Feijóo, highlighted that, in 2023, the government had already granted a linear salary increase to all federal public servants.
“This agreement, together with the 9% adjustment that was already granted last year, begins a process of recovering salaries that were frozen for so long,” stated the secretary.
For the Confederation of Workers in the Federal Public Service (Condsef), the readjustment of benefits was positive for employees, but the entity says it will continue to demand adjustments of between 7% and 10% in salaries for this year.
“In the term of commitment, there is nothing guaranteed about the adjustment for 2024, even though the entities have insisted on this. But let’s not throw in the towel, because it’s a historic demand for the category. We understand that the salary freezing phase was in the previous government, so the time to recover the purchasing power of civil servants is now”, assesses Sérgio Ronaldo da Silva, secretary general of Condsef, in an interview with Brazil Agency.
The entity represents 80% of Federal Executive employees, including active employees, retirees and pensioners.
