Auxílio Brasil is the integration of the various public policies of assistance to health, education, employment and income. With that in mind, Senator Alessandro Vieira (PSDB-SE) presented a Bill to expand the Early Childhood Benefit, which seeks to reach more children. Keep reading and learn how the Auxílio Brasil aims to include children up to 6 years old in your program.
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The benefit proposal has been talked about due to the relevance of the program. Understand more about it in the topic below and then check out the proposed change.
What is Brazil Aid?
The new social program is coordinated by the Ministry of Citizenship, and is aimed at Brazilian families in situations of poverty and extreme poverty. Auxílio Brasil guarantees a basic income to its beneficiaries and encourages the autonomy of these families so that they are able to overcome situations of social vulnerability.
Proposal to include children up to 6 years old in the benefit
At the moment, the Lei do Auxílio Brasil (Law 14.284, of 2021) grants the Early Childhood Benefit only to children up to three years old, that is, with 36 months to live. However, Senator Alessandro Vieira (PSDB-SE) presented an amendment project for the inclusion of children up to 6 years old in the program.
However, the technical and legal definition of early childhood has already been established by legislation according to Law 13.257/2016, article 2. Therefore, the parliamentarian makes use of it to justify his proposal, see below what it says:
“Art. 2 of LAW No. 13,257, OF MARCH 8, 2016: For the purposes of this Law, early childhood is considered to be period covering the first 6 (six) full years or 72 (seventy-two) months of the life of the child."
Changing the maximum age for Early Childhood would cost the government around BRL 5.8 billion a year. However, around 7.5 million families would receive BRL 65 per beneficiary. The author also requests that the necessary resources be included in the 2023 Budget Law, which has its 2023 Budget Guidelines Bill pending in Congress. At the moment, the project is awaiting a vote in the plenary of the Federal Senate.
