Individuals and companies that missed the deadline to withdraw the R$8.6 billion in funds forgotten in financial institutions – closed this Wednesday (16) – They will still have six months to claim the amounts. The information to request the money will be in a notice that will be published by the Ministry of Finance.
The Values Receivable System (SVR) is a Central Bank (BC) service, in which it is possible to check whether companies, even those that have been closed, and individuals, including deceased ones, have money forgotten in a bank, consortium or other institution and, if so, know how to request the amount. According to Law 2,313 of 1954if the resources are not required within 25 years, they may be incorporated into the Union.
The government emphasizes that this does not represent a confiscation. In the case of amounts currently reported in the Central Bank’s SVR, unwithdrawn funds will be transferred to the Central Bank’s single account. National Treasury to comply with the law that compensates for the extension of the payroll tax exemption for 17 sectors of the economy and 156 municipalities, approved in September by the National Congress.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the new notice will list the amounts collected, the institution where they were forgotten, the nature of the deposit, the branch and the account number.
30 day deadline
A period of 30 days will then be established, counting from the date of publication of the notice, for the respective holders to contest the collection of resources. In this case, the interested party needs to contact financial institutions to recover the forgotten money.
After this period, people and companies will still have six months to request judicial recognition of the right to the values, a period that also begins after the publication of the notice by the Ministry of Finance. After that, the amounts will be collected by the Union.
The Central Bank and the Ministry of Finance have not yet released a balance of how much remained to be recovered from the R$ 8.6 billion that were available until last Wednesday (16). Of this total, R$6.62 billion refers to amounts not withdrawn by individuals and R$1.97 billion by companies.
After being offline for almost a year, the SVR reopened in March 2023, with new sources of funding, a new scheduling system and the possibility of recovering values from deceased people. Until August this yearthe BC promoted the return of R$8 billion, out of a total of R$16.6 billion made available by financial institutions.
