According to information shared by the Minister of Labor and Social Security, Margarida Talapa, the debt of taxpayers to the INSS is over 3.2 billion Meticais. This debt arises from companies' failure to pay the INSS the amounts deducted from their workers.

At the opening of the National Meeting of the INSS, Margarida Talapa said that, on the echo of the third quarter of 2021, the INSS managed to collect more than 538 million Meticais, an amount that came from 16.394 taxpayers-debtors, not revealing which sectors these companies fall under.

In order to resolve this situation, Talapa encouraged the INSS and the General Inspectorate of Labor to strengthen their partnerships with trade union organizations, in this case the Confederation of Economic Associations of Mozambique, and the judicial sector, in order to collect, coercively, the existing debts of companies to the social security system.

Talapa said that the system currently has 141,475 contributing companies and 1,685,741 beneficiaries, or salaried workers. This past year alone, 13,042 contributors and 76,045 beneficiaries were enrolled. Havenco also 62,681 self-employed people enrolled, and of these 6,239 are active, representing 10% of the total enrolled.