The Ministry of Economy and Finance says that the data entered into the Single Wage Table (TSU) is being audited, with the aim of identifying anomalies and correcting them.

The inspector general of the Ministry of Economy and Finance, Emanuel Mabumo, was quoted by the newspaper O País as saying that 50% had been audited by June 10 this year.

According to the newspaper, one of the problems identified has to do with the rounding off of officials' time in the Civil Service. In other words, some officials were hired, for example, in November last year and at the beginning of this year, the system considered them to have been in the job for two years.

Another problem has to do with the divergence in the application of procedures in the process of counting career time.

"For an employee who spent ten years as an N1 senior technician and moved up to specialist two years ago, the career time is two years, but what's in the system is 12.... The law says it's two years," explained Mabumo.

The source also said that "we've seen other situations in which we have contract agents who then become state employees and who, at the time they were hired, didn't make the necessary deductions."