More than 1.5 million beneficiaries who receive Bolsa Família irregularly will be excluded from the social program in March, announced today (24) the Minister of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger (MDS), Wellington Dias. According to the minister, over 700,000 families entitled to the benefit will be included in the program. According to the minister, beneficiaries who will no longer receive Bolsa Família have income above the legal limit for the program. Of the total of 1.5 million people, informed the minister, there are around 400,000 single-person registrations (families with only one member). . According to the minister, these people meet the requirements to receive the Bolsa Família, but they could not be reached, which required the government to actively search for participants.“With the active search and the Unified Social Assistance System network, which is very prepared and very competent, we are now in a position to also bring in those who have the right and were in the queue, were out”, highlighted the minister in a note sent by the folder. Review Another tool to reduce undue payments of benefits, the minister pointed out, are voluntary requests for exclusion from the Single Registry for Social Programs of the Federal Government (CadÚnico). According to the minister, until this morning, 2,265 people with a single person registration had asked to be withdrawn from the program. The functionality is available in the CadÚnico application. By the end of this year, the government will review the registration of 5 million families who declare themselves as single persons and receive Bolsa Família. From March to December, people will be called for the review, without the need to go to social assistance service units. The government will also carry out a public utility campaign to inform the population about the rules and criteria for accessing programs and social policies. CadÚnico is an identification tool for low-income Brazilian families and is administered by the Unified Social Assistance System. After enrolling in the tool, the vulnerable population can access programs such as the Social Electricity Tariff, Minha Casa Minha Vida and Continuous Provision Benefit (BPC), among others. start paying in March the additional BRL 150 of Bolsa Família for families with children up to 6 years old. The Constitutional Amendment of the Transition, approved at the end of last year, assured resources for the supplementary benefit.
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