Caixa Econômica Federal pays on Wednesday (29) the January installment of the new Bolsa Familia to beneficiaries with social registration number (NIS) of end 8.
The minimum amount corresponds to R $ 600, but with the new additional the average benefit amount rises to R $ 673.62. According to the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, this month, the Federal Government’s Income Transfer Program will reach 20.48 million families, with expense of R $ 13.8 billion.
In addition to the minimum benefit, there is a payment of three additional. The Nutriz Family Variable Benefit pays six installments of R $ 50 to mothers of babies up to six months of age, to ensure the child’s diet. Bolsa Familia also pays an increase of $ 50 to families with pregnant women and children from 7 to 18 years old and another, from $ 150, to families with children up to 6 years old.
In the traditional model of Bolsa Familia, payment occurs in the last ten business days of each month. The beneficiary can consult information about payment dates, the benefit amount and the composition of the installments in the Caixa application application, used to track the bank’s digital savings accounts.
Residents of Rio Grande do Sul, affected by last year’s floods, and five other states (Amazonas, Piauí, Rondônia, São Paulo and Sergipe) received the payment of Bolsa Familia in a unified way on the 20th, regardless of NIS number . The unified payment benefited all 62 municipalities of Amazonas and all 52 of Rondônia, affected by drought and the leakage of the rivers; Ten municipalities of Sergipe and the municipality of Picos (PI), affected by heavy rains; and 30 municipalities of São Paulo in a state of emergency because of the increase in dengue and rainfall cases.
Since last year, Bolsa Familia beneficiaries have no longer have the discount of the defense insurance. The change was established by Law 14.601/2023which rescued the Bolsa Familia (PBF) program. Defense insurance is paid to people who survive exclusively from artisanal fishing and cannot perform the activity during the piracema period (fish reproduction).
Protection rule
About 2.5 million families are in the protection rule in January. In force since June 2023, this rule allows families whose members get employment and improve income receive 50% of the benefit they would be entitled to up to two years, provided that each member receives the equivalent of up to half a minimum wage. For these families, the average benefit was R $ 386.66.
Register
Since July 2023, the integration of Bolsa Familia data is valid with the National Register of Social Information (CNIS). Based on the intersection of information, about 440,000 of families left the program this month because they reached higher income to the Bolsa Familia framing. CNIS has more than 80 billion administrative records related to income, formal employment links and social security benefits and care paid by the National Institute of Social Security (INSS).
On the other hand, 110,000 families were included in the program in December. Inclusion was possible because of the active search policy, based on the restructuring of the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) and which focuses on the most vulnerable people who are entitled to income supplement, but do not receive the benefit.
Bolsa Familia Calendar of January 2025 – EBC art
Gas
This month there will be no payment of the gas aid, which benefits families registered in CadÚnico. As the benefit is only paid every two months, payment will return in February.
It can only receive gas assistance those who are included in the cadunic and have at least one family member who receives the continued benefit (BPC) benefit. The law that created the program has defined that the woman responsible for the family will preference, as well as women victims of domestic violence.
