Will the extension of emergency aid allow new registrations?
The Federal Government is discussing the possibility of extending emergency aid for a few more months.
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If this happens, the program will maintain the criteria adopted to date, including the installment amounts of R$ 150.00 to R$ 375.00.
However, what many Brazilians want to know is whether this new extension will have a deadline for new registrations.
According to what was found by Folha de São Paulo, everything indicates that new beneficiaries will not be accepted into the program.
If the aid is extended, the government will use the R$1.5 billion remaining from the last Provisional Measure that released R$1.5 billion to make this year's payments possible. A new Provisional Measure is expected to be issued soon to complete the necessary amount.
Two more installments are expected to be paid to cover the program's more than 39 million beneficiaries. It's worth noting that no new applicants were accepted in 2021, and the aid is only being released to those who already registered in 2020.
Guedes's response
Regarding the possibility of extending the benefit, Economy Minister Paulo Guedes said at an event that the decision regarding the number of installments has not yet been made.
“The emergency aid will probably be withdrawn in two or three months; we will probably renew it for the next two months,” he said.
At another event held at the end of May, the minister stated that everything will depend on the progress of vaccination in Brazil.
"The question is the pandemic and the pace of vaccination. If we're winning the fight, with mass vaccination, by the end of July we'll have vaccinated 601-701 people, including 1001 elderly people, if we achieve disease control through the pandemic," he said.
