Government will release R$ 15 million to assist the over-indebted

The Ministry of Justice will release R$ 15 million to serve over-indebted consumers. The announcement was made this Thursday (2) by the Minister of Justice and Public Security, Flávio Dino. The amount, according to him, is the result of a partnership with the National Council of Justice (CNJ), and will be allocated to state and municipal Procon. The amounts to be allocated to each Procon, according to Dino, may be used, for example, for hiring people, purchasing equipment and cars and even local campaigns aimed at guiding the consumer. “State and municipal procons who want to serve over-indebted consumers will be able to present a project,” he said. Existential minimum Minister Flávio Dino defended the readjustment of the existential minimum, salary value to be preserved when over-indebted citizens are negotiating the payment of these debts with the banks. Set by presidential decree last September, the existential minimum is set at R$303, a parameter classified by Dino as “inadequate”. “If we have a social policy relaunched today with Bolsa Família in the parameter of R$ 600, it is clear that the existential minimum cannot be R$ 303. There is, at the very least, an inconsistency”, he said. “Probably one of the proposals that will come out [de negociações] is to review this value, increasing it to protect the consumer. That is, what should be left over for the consumer after he pays his debts must be more than R$ 303, obviously”, he defended.

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