What benefits are guaranteed to former presidents?

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At the end of his term, the president is entitled to assistance in four servants for your safety, as well as two official vehicles with two drivers, adding salaries in BRL 28,738.36 per month. Both Fernando Collor, who was impeached in 1992, and Dilma Rousseff maintained these and other benefits guaranteed to former presidents even after the termination of their mandates. In the USA, the rule is practically the same, but who is responsible for keeping the former president they are and safe is the Secret Service, and the right extends to children in up to 16 years.

Both in Brazil and in the US, former presidents are entitled to personal advisors. Here, they are two special advisors with salary in BRL 11,852.93 per month each. In the US, there is an allowance: a maximum of US$ 150,000 per year for the first two and a half years. Thereafter, the amount cannot exceed $96,000 per year. They also have an amount to rent an office in the country.

You benefits in Brazil they stop there, but in the United States there are other perks, such as the right to treatment in a military hospital for themselves and their families, and a funeral with military honors. Add to this the right in travel with two employees for official reasons involving status in former presidents – such as lectures and events. But nothing in family trip.

In Brazil, the former president received retirement, but the benefit was cut in 1988, still in the Sarney government (the oldest of the living former presidents). In the US, those who have completed their term receive a salary equivalent to in a minister – $16,000 a month for life.

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