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10/03/2021 – 22:50
• Updated 11/03/2021 – 00:46
Pablo Valadares / Chamber of Deputies
Plenary of the Chamber of Deputies
The Chamber of Deputies rejected emphasis of the PDT and maintained in the text of the Emergency PEC (PEC 186/19) the maximum amount of R $ 44 billion for the payment of emergency aid in 2021, excluding these values of the spending ceiling and the goal of primary result of this year (estimated in deficit of R $ 247 billion). The party intended to remove this limit for the payment of aid. There were 345 votes against and 144 votes in favor of the culminating point.
The House then rejected a similar climax from the PCdoB. There were 337 votes against and 151 votes in favor of the culminating point. Unlike the PDT highlight, it was only intended to exclude the maximum amount, without touching the device that allows the use of this money outside of this year’s spending ceiling and primary outcome target.
“It makes no sense to put a straitjacket on the government. If the government needs to spend more, Congress will authorize it, ”argued the leader of the PCdoB, deputy Renildo Calheiros (PCdoB-PE). According to him, the cap also prevents Congress from increasing the amount of aid. “If the aid grows a little more than R $ 250, the money will not be enough. We would have to reduce the number of people benefited,” he reflected.
The leader of the PV, deputy Enrico Misasi (PV-SP), argued that, in the event of a calamity, the different tax regime offers an “escape valve” if the amount of R $ 44 billion is not enough. The possibility of revising the limit if the crisis worsens is not excluded, “he counterattacked.
Emergency help
In addition to providing stricter measures to contain mandatory expenditures by the Union, the states and the municipalities, the PEC allows the issuance of public bonds for the payment of emergency aid.
According to the government, for 2021 the aid will be from R $ 175 to R $ 375 for four months (March to June). For a single-parent family headed by a woman, the amount will be R $ 375; for a couple, R $ 250; and only for men, R $ 175.
The first wave of aid payments in 2020 reached R $ 292 billion for about 68 million people, in two rounds: in the first, installments of R $ 600 were paid for five months; and in the second, called “residual aid”, installments of R $ 300 were made in four months and with a smaller target audience.
Report – Eduardo Piovesan and Francisco Brandão
Editing – Pierre Triboli
