Caixa Econômica Federal pays this Monday (23) the May installment of Auxílio Brasil to beneficiaries with a Social Registration Number (NIS) ending in 4. The minimum benefit amount is R$ 400. The dates follow the Bolsa model. Family, who paid on the last ten working days of the month.
The beneficiary will be able to consult information on payment dates, benefit amount and composition of installments in two applications: Auxílio Brasil, developed for the social program, and Caixa Tem, used to monitor the bank’s digital savings accounts.
Currently, 17.5 million families are served by the program. At the beginning of the year, 3 million were included.
Basic benefits
Auxílio Brasil has three basic benefits and six supplementary benefits, which can be added if the beneficiary gets a job or has a child who excels in sports, scientific or academic competitions.
Families with a per capita income of up to R$100, considered in extreme poverty, and up to R$200, in a condition of poverty, can receive the benefit.
permanent benefit
Last week, the President of the Republic, Jair Bolsonaro, sanctioned the provisional measure that makes the Auxílio Brasil of R$400 a permanent benefit. The sanction was published in the Official Diary of the Union.
The federal government’s initial proposal foresaw that this value would only be valid until December 2022. The parliamentarians, however, decided to make the value permanent, and the text approved by the Senate, on the 4th, already made the R$ 400 floor permanent with the inclusion of a kind of complement to the value of Auxílio Brasil. Before, the benefit had an average ticket of BRL 224.
According to the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, the government spends around R$ 47.5 billion annually on the regular volume of Auxílio Brasil alone. The estimate is that the government will need to disburse another R$ 41 billion per year to fund the complementary amount to the benefit.
“Presidential sanction is important to make the Auxílio Brasil Program effective, making it perennial for society, mitigating the financial bottleneck related to the most needy”, said the ministry.
