The Minister of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight Against Hunger, Wellington Dias, said this Friday (3rd) that the government will update the Bolsa Família registration, a program that was relaunched yesterday (2nd). 12,000 people will be hired to update the registration. Dias informed that the contractors will carry out a kind of “fine-tooth comb” to update the beneficiary data, through an active search. According to the minister, around 2.5 million people received the benefit unduly. “Twelve thousand people will be hired throughout Brazil, who will be trained to update their registration”, he said. “Not only do we have an updated record, excluding those who do not have the right, but also including people who were in the queue, who had the right and were not assisted”, he added, in a press conference to present details about the reformulation of the program. aimed at families in situations of economic and social vulnerability. To be qualified, they need to meet eligibility criteria, such as presenting per capita income classified as a situation of poverty or extreme poverty, having updated data in the Single Registry and not having divergent information between those declared in the registry and in other federal databases. The minister also said that the program should cost the government around R$ 14.5 billion in March, when the new rules for granting the benefit begin to apply. paid per person will be R$ 260. There will be 24,838,887 beneficiaries, who will start receiving from March 20. According to the minister, no family will receive less than BRL 600; there will also be the creation of a minimum income per person: all members of the family, regardless of age, will be entitled to a minimum income; beneficiary families with children up to 6 years old will receive an increase of R$ 150 per child; beneficiary families with children from 7 years old and teenagers up to 18 years old will receive an additional R$50 per child or teenager; and beneficiary families with pregnant women will receive an increase of R$ 50 per pregnant woman. To receive the benefit, families need to comply with the following considerations: prenatal monitoring for pregnant women, keeping children and adolescents in school and updating the vaccination booklet with all immunizations provided for in the National Vaccination Program of the Ministry of Health.
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