Emergency aid: Bolsonaro vetoes the law that extends the beneficiaries | Politics

The law comes into effect with the sanction and Congress must analyze the vetoes. Parliamentarians can uphold or reverse Bolsonaro’s decision. The sanction is signed with the vetoes of Bolsonaro and the ministers of the Economy, Paulo Guedes; Citizenship, Onyx Lorenzoni; and Family, Women and Human Rights, Damares Regina Alves.

In justifying it to stop the changes, the government said the proposed law violated the principle of isonomy by privileging some professions over others. The Executive also reported that Congress did not specify the source of the budget or the impact of the increased spending on public accounts.

The president vetoed the extension of the benefit to informal professionals who are not registered in the Single Registry. The National Congress specified professions that could receive the R $ 600 from the government, such as application driver, door-to-door vendors, beach vendors.

The government also vetoed the possibility that single male heads of households receive double the emergency benefit. According to current regulations, only mothers who are heads of household have the prerogative of R $ 1,200 for emergency aid.

Minister Damares justified the veto by stating that the expansion would jeopardize the additional payment to single mothers, as Congress did not establish mechanisms to prevent absent fathers from fraudulently placing themselves as heads of households to receive the benefit instead of mothers. who effectively care for children.

But Bolsonaro sanctioned an important change: the release so that adolescent mothers, under the age of 18, can receive aid.

Emergency aid was created in early April to help informal workers cope with the economic crisis caused by the new coronavirus pandemic. In general, people who meet a series of requirements are entitled to three installments of R $ 600.

The proposal that expands the beneficiaries was approved by the Senate on April 22. Among the main points of the text sent to the sanction, is the passage that grants single heads of parents the right to two installments of aid (R $ 1,200); and the inclusion of adolescent mothers (under 18 years old) in the list of possible beneficiaries.

According to the Ministry of Economy, the inclusion of single parents can only benefit 900 thousand people, with an estimated cost of R $ 1.6 billion.