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BRAZIL – After the beneficiaries sleep at the doors of the Caixa branches, the president of the institution, Pedro Guimarães, said he will change the schedule of the second installment to minimize crowds, but that there is no way to pay for emergency aid without queues and crowds in times of coronavirus pandemic. “We know there was a huge crowd this week. We are acting to resolve. There is no possibility of paying 50 million people in three weeks without queuing, I don’t promise, “he said.
The new calendar will still be discussed with the Minister for Citizenship, Onyx Lorenzoniand presented to President Jair Bolsonaro before being introduced. The idea is to avoid the overlap between the Bolsa Família payment and emergency aid to reduce demand at branches. According to Guimarães, this week, there were concurrent payments from the program and emergency aid, both through digital accounts and for cash withdrawals.
“There is no condition to mix the Bolsa Família payment with that of digital accounts. We will minimize the queues in the second payment of emergency aid,” he said. “We are making the largest payment in Brazil and perhaps in the world right now.” in the last 20 days. ”
In addition, there will be improvements in the request for emergency aid and the hiring of 3,000 new security guards to organize the lines.
How showed an article by Estadão this Friday, the beneficiaries even slept in the door of the branches in the outskirts of São Paulo and the queues were repeated throughout Brazil in the last days. With the start of the payment of the benefit, the doors of the Caixa agencies became a pilgrimage site for an army of Brazilians who saw the little income that had disappeared with the pandemic.
He stressed that Bolsa Família’s calendar will not change and the benefit will continue to be paid in the last ten days of the month. The executive said that the demand in the agencies has been enormous and that most people go to the agency to request information, not to withdraw aid. “The next calendar will take into account everything that is happening now. We understand the need and despair of people for these resources, “he said.
97 million records
Almost 97 million Brazilians have registered to receive emergency aid so far. According to Caixa, 50.1 million were approved and are receiving the first installment and 26.1 million were considered ineligible. Other records are inconclusive and should be redone or are still under review.
“We are forwarding responses to people who had an inconclusive or negative history. I ask that you verify the requests. Many have already received and go to agencies, ”said the president of Caixa, Pedro Guimarães. According to the executive, 80% of the beneficiaries went to the branch to withdraw and 20% made transfers or digital payments.
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