The Jair Bolsonaro government (PL) wants to bring forward the payment schedule of the Auxílio Brasil of R$ 600 to the first half of August and start transferring the social benefits provided for in the PEC (proposed amendment to the Constitution) approved by Congress on the 9th.
In the current calendar, Auxílio Brasil deposits are made according to the end of the NIS (Social Identification Number) of the citizen registered in CadÚnico (Single Registry). The boosted payment was scheduled to start between August 18 and 31.
For truck drivers and taxi drivers, the Ministry of Labor and Welfare informed on Friday (15) that it plans to pay two installments of aid also in the first half of August, two months before the elections.
The government will have just five months to complete the transfers until the end of the year, given the implementation procedures for new benefits, which require federal regulation in addition to the request for extraordinary credit (outside the spending ceiling).
According to the ministry, the truck drivers’ data were passed on by the ANTT (National Land Transport Agency) of the Ministry of Infrastructure and are being checked so that the payments of the R$ 1,000 voucher are made to the beneficiaries.
The release of aid to taxi drivers, in turn, depends on information provided by the 5,570 Brazilian municipalities. According to the Ministry of Labor, “there will be a request to the municipalities for the databases of professionals who have documents of permission to provide the service by the municipal government.”
The amount allocated to taxi drivers registered until May 31, 2022 is yet to be defined, but the Ministry of Citizenship says, on its website, that the benefit may be R$200. The invoice limit established by the constitutional amendment is R$2 billion.
According to the special assistant secretary of the Treasury and Budget of the Ministry of Economy, Julio Alexandre, the new versions of Auxílio Gás e Alimenta Brasil can also be paid in early August. As they are already existing benefits, they only depend on the issue of MP (provisional measure) for the release of extraordinary credit.
In June, 5.7 million low-income families received R$ 53, equivalent to 50% of the average price of a gas cylinder in the country. The forecast is that three installments of R$ 120 will be paid, in August, October and December, since the benefit is bimonthly.
The constitutional amendment establishes an additional R$ 500 million in the budget of the Alimenta Brasil program, which finances the purchase of food from family farmers for donation.
The total estimated cost of the package of measures, scheduled to last until December this year, is R$41.25 billion, up from the R$38.75 billion originally signaled.
The package has the potential to boost the popularity of President Jair Bolsonaro in the dispute for the Planalto with Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT). Currently, it appears in second place in the polls.
According to June’s Datafolha, Lula has a 19-point advantage over Bolsonaro, marking 47% of voting intentions in the first round.
I have over 8 years of experience in the news industry. I have worked for various news websites and have also written for a few news agencies. I mostly cover healthcare news, but I am also interested in other topics such as politics, business, and entertainment. In my free time, I enjoy writing fiction and spending time with my family and friends.
