«People will always be the solution. That’s why we’re returning with Bolsa Família, with My House, My Life and making adjustments in education. Because Brazil needs to grow again and improve the lives of its people. Good Sunday!” Lula wrote on Twitter.
With its content, the mechanical blackmailer indicated the vitality of these plans, with the need to focus on the social guarantees abandoned in previous governments, such as that of defeated President Jair Bolsonaro.
On March 2, Lula signed the interim measure establishing the new Bolsa Família, an aid program for families in need.
According to the government, the values of the plan are 600 reais (about $116) per month per family; Another 150 ($29) for each child up to six years old; 50 (about $10) is added for infants over the age of seven and under the age of 18, and 50 for pregnant women.
The interim measure of the new Bolsa Família will come into force upon its publication in the Official Journal of the Union, but must be approved by the National Congress within up to 120 days.
The social project serves families whose per capita income is classified as in dire need or extreme scarcity.
According to Social Development Minister Wellington Días, 700,000 families not included in the program will be considered. They become beneficiaries even if they don’t follow the rules of the plan.
Earlier on February 14, Lula approved the interim measure to resume My House, My Life, a program to provide homes to low-income families, in Bahia state (Northeast).
The former labor leader participated in the donation of 684 houses in the Bahian municipality of Santo Amaro, but there were others at the same time for the housing plan in Lauro de Freitas (Bahía), João Pessoa (Paraíba), Contagem (Minas Gerais) and Aparecida de Goiânia (Goias).
My House, My Life was founded in 2009 during Lula’s second government with the aim of reducing the country’s housing deficit.
At least 281,472 Brazilians are currently roofless (homeless) in the South American giant, a number that represents a 38 percent increase from 2019, the pre-Covid-19 pandemic period.
On repeated occasions, Lula affirmed that attention and care for the poor will be at the center of his administration’s attention, in which they will regain their rights.
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