It is reported that in Brazil there is a certain procedure for confirming its right to receive a pension. Every year every Brazilian pensioner must appear personally and confirm that he is still alive to receive a pension. Meter was very surprised by the fact that the department considered him dead when he did not go to the office to verify his identity.

"In my case, it's obvious. I mean that every day on TV, that I'm alive, "- the President says mockingly..

However, he noted the effectiveness of the pension agency, and that the bureaucratic machine treats everyone the same, without the privileges for the powerful.

It is noteworthy that the biggest political test for Temer this year will be the reform of the pension system, not in favor of the last resort.

As reported in URA-Inform, the US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, demands that the Moscow authorities restore payments of social assistance to citizens who are in the temporarily occupied territories of Donetsk and Lugansk regions.