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According to the rapporteur for the Constitutional Reform Proposal (PEC) of the Federative Pact, Senator Márcio Bittar (MDB-AC), the new social program of the government of President Jair Bolsonaro will be called Citizen income.
THE Citizen income will replace and expand the Family scholarship, which currently serves 14 million Brazilian families at a cost of R $ 32 billion per year. Now, with the new social program, the proposal opens space in the federal budget to increase spending.
According to Bittar, the guarantee for the creation of the Citizen income It was delivered by Bolsonaro on Wednesday, September 23. In addition, the president requested that the source of the funds to pay the benefit be indicated in the report.
The measure was also agreed with all the leaders of the support base in the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate, after meetings in recent days.
“I can say that I am authorized to close the report and point out the source of funds for the new program. This was agreed with the president and all the leaders, ”Bittar said.
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The senator did not anticipate the origin of the funds. However, he stressed that it will be necessary to cut expenses in order to pay R $ 30 billion for the program, which aims to include ten million families in the program. The figure will depend on the value of the benefit that these people will receive.
According to the interlocutors, Bolsonaro would like to maintain the new amount of emergency aid of R $ 300, which runs until December 2020.
The members of the Executive and Legislature try not to go into details about the new program so as not to make noise, especially after interviews with the special secretary of Finance, Wadery Rodrigues, informing that the source of the funds would be in the freezing of the pensions of retirement.
At the time, President Jair Bolsonaro said that he would never take from the poor to give to the poor. At the time, he also banned government officials from speaking about the then Renda Brasil, a name that was being considered to replace Bolsa Família. He also denied that he would make changes to the PIS salary allocation.
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