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The rules for the payment of the new round of emergency aid were released on Thursday (18). The government has said it will pay smaller installments than those in 2020.
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There will be four payments of R $ 250 starting in April. This time, the aid will be paid to only one person per family, as opposed to the aid round in 2020, when up to two people per family could receive it.
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A new rule: those who live alone, will receive less – R $ 150. Women heads of household will receive R $ 375. In 2020, these women received double the benefit, R $ 1,200.
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The government has not yet informed the dates of deposits in Caixa’s digital accounts. Whoever is in Bolsa Família will receive according to the program schedule and will have the benefit that is most advantageous.
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The government maintained some rules for aid paid in 2020. They cannot receive: employees with a formal contract or under the age of 18 – except teenage mothers; families with income above half a minimum wage per member and total monthly income above three minimum wages; beneficiaries of other government programs – except salary allowance and Bolsa Família; who received, in 2019, taxable income above R $ 28 thousand.
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But there are new rules. The benefit cannot be granted to anyone who: is a medical or other health care resident, beneficiary of a scholarship, intern, public agent, imprisoned in a closed regime or beneficiary of imprisonment aid; had the 2020 aid canceled; and those who did not move the amounts of aid received in digital savings in the 2020 payment round.
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According to the Planalto Palace, the emergency aid will cost R $ 43 billion to the public coffers and will be paid to 45.6 million people – less than last year’s 68 million beneficiaries. Of the total, 28 million are already enrolled in the Caixa Econômica app; 6 million from the Cadastro Único; and 10 million Bolsa Família beneficiaries.
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The provisional measures with the new emergency aid rules will have to be approved by Congress – which can make changes – and the expectation now is that the government will also renew the measures to maintain employment that were valid in 2020. The economic team is studying to allow again that companies can suspend the contract or reduce wages and hours while the employee receives unemployment insurance.
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