Senate approves provisional measure creating Brazil Aid

The Federal Senate approved, this Thursday (2), the Provisional Measure (MP) 1061/2021 that creates Brazil Aid. The MP had been sent by the government in August and had already been approved, with amendments, by the Chamber of Deputies on the 25th. The matter had until the 7th to be approved, at the risk of losing its effectiveness. The now PLV 26/2021, goes to the approval of the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro.

The new bill also creates the Alimenta Brasil program, which will replace the Food Acquisition Program (PAA), aimed at family farmers.

Brazil Aid

The Auxílio Brasil program replaces Bolsa Família and had already been paid since November 17 to around 14.5 million Brazilian families .

The program provides for three types of benefits: the Early Childhood Benefit, which will be paid to families with children up to 3 years of age; the Family Composition Benefit, intended for families whose composition includes pregnant women, nursing mothers or people aged between 3 and 21 years old; and the Extreme Poverty Overcoming Benefit, paid to families in extreme poverty, whose monthly per capita family income, even added to the previous financial benefits that may have been received, is equal to or less than the value of the extreme poverty line.

In addition to these benefits, the program also institutes Esporte Escolar allowances; Junior Scientific Initiation Scholarship; Citizen Child; Rural Productive Inclusion and Urban Productive Inclusion, classified as “incentives to individual effort and emancipation”.

PEC of Precatório

The financing of the program will be thanks to the Proposed Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of the Precatório, also approved this Thursday . This is because, as the PEC postpones the payment of court orders, the government now has a financial slack to finance Brazil Aid.

Auxílio Brasil must be paid in installments with an average value of R$400. The program is expected to serve 17 million families.

*with information from the Senate Agency

Text translated using artificial intelligence.