In October this year, the Auxílio Brasil program reached the highest level of the program, with 20.65 million families benefiting. to the program The Voice of Brazil This Tuesday (4), the Minister of Citizenship, Ronaldo Bento, said that around 500,000 families were included in the program this month. 
According to the new calendar, transfers of the minimum amount of R$ 600 per family will start on Tuesday (11) for beneficiaries with a Social Identification Number (NIS) ending in 1. Payments will be staggered until the 25th of October. On this date, those covered by the program with the end of NIS 0 will receive.
improvement
According to the minister, the program is constantly improving and takes very seriously the conditions for receiving the benefit, such as the presence of children and young people aged between 3 and 21 in the education system, compliance with the vaccination record and, in the case of pregnant women, do prenatal care.
Ronaldo Bento pointed out that Auxílio Brasil has zeroed the queue of people in need of the benefit. “So, more than 8 million new families have already been included in the Auxílio Brasil benefit, and we are implementing the process of improving our Single Registry, the gateway to social programs, making today 100% of families in poverty extreme are supported by the Auxilio Brasil program”.
The minister points out that the Single Registry and aid are undergoing a process of constant modernization and that the Auxilio Brasil card has come to democratize access to credit and banking for vulnerable families. “[O cartão] comes to bring security, because the physical card is equipped with a contact chip that makes cloning these cards difficult, as well as allowing the debit function. This prevents the family from going to a lottery shop”.
The minister also highlights that families that constitute an individual microenterprise do not lose the benefit and are entitled to entrepreneurial microcredit, available as a form of access to credit, and also have access to payroll-deductible credit, with a maximum rate of 3.5% per month. . “This credit has to be granted in a conscious way to the beneficiary of Auxílio Brasil, aiming for him to use these resources to face an existing debt and with that be able to pay, get out of this vicious cycle of a debt, or start a business”, says the minister.
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