Judicial agreement signed by the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger (MDS), Public Defender of the Union (DPU) and Advocacy General of the Union (AGU) will restructure the Single Registry (CadÚnico), in order to facilitate the access to federal government social programs. In addition to guaranteeing the benefit to citizens who meet the requirements of the programs, the agreement provides, on an emergency basis, for the transfer of BRL 200 million to municipalities and states in March and April, to assist in the restructuring of the Unified Social Assistance System network. (Suas), enabling the active search by people who are entitled to social benefits. “In this action, the focus will be on population groups with a recognized degree of extreme vulnerability, such as homeless people, indigenous peoples and children submitted to work”, informed the MDS. To this end, 12,000 agents will be trained in the 12 units of Suas in the country, in order to improve the capacity of providing social assistance. Programs In a note, the minister of the MDA, Wellington Dias, said that, immediately, “millions of people will have their doors open” to access social programs. “A right that was denied to these people, who went to the Reference Center for Social Assistance (Cras) in a municipality in Brazil, registered, fulfilled the requirements and were left out. People who didn’t even have the right to register, while others with very high incomes are receiving it”, said the minister. According to the folder, CadÚnico represents the “gateway to 32 social programs of the Federal Government”. Its reconstruction began in the midst of articulations made within the scope of Suas. The Union’s attorney general, Jorge Messias, informed that the initiative does not only deal with the system, registration, process and administrative act. “We are talking about lives; of people who really need the support of the State”, he said. According to the MDS, the agreement was possible based on a 2020 action by the Federal Public Defender’s Office that questioned the stoppage of CadÚNico registration and update activities during the covid-19 pandemic. The dismantling of the decentralized network of assistance to families in Suas also favored reaching an agreement; the lack of federative articulation and guidance to municipalities and society; and the increase in the number of registrations with different incomes. The agreement provides that the MDS should make new features available in the Cadastro Único application “so that people who entered it incorrectly, registering alone, even if they live with their families, can request the cancellation of the registration made in the wrong way, followed by a new inclusion of the family correctly”. It is also foreseen, among the new functionalities of the application, the option of voluntary disconnection from the program.
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