The Minister of Social Development, Wellington Dias, said that the government will not cut benefits for those entitled to Bolsa Família and the Continuous Payment Benefit (BPC).
According to the minister, President Lula (PT) “would never accept” cutting the benefits of people who meet the program requirements.
The statement was given in an interview given to Poder360this Thursday (7).
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“We will not, at the Ministry of Social Development, cut any benefits for those entitled to Bolsa Família and BPC. On the contrary, President Lula’s order is to guarantee the right to those who have the right, those who are outside and in food insecurity and to remove Brazil from the Hunger Map and we are doing it”, stated Dias.
“Lula remains the same, due to his life story, total commitment to the poorest and would never accept cutting a single benefit from Bolsa Família or BPC or any benefit that meets legal requirements for a poor person or family”, he added.
Lula and ministers will hold another meeting on spending cuts
Also this Tuesday, President Lula’s meeting with ministers of the economic area, Labor, Health and Education was suspended after 5 hours of discussion. A new meeting was scheduled to take place tomorrow, starting at 2 pm.
The Minister of Finance, Fernando Haddad, canceled his return to São Paulo scheduled for this Friday (8) to resume negotiations on the package of measures to cut public spending.
Haddad had signaled, earlier this Thursday (7), that the announcement would be scheduled for next week, but the government is under pressure from the financial market to quickly present measures to balance public accounts.
After Haddad’s speech, postponing the announcement, the stock exchange’s stock index, B3, which was on the rise, retreated and closed down 0.5%, at around 129 thousand points. The dollar rose 0.3%, at R$5.69.
Noise about the values of the measures to be announced also contributed to the poor performance. The financial market’s expectation is a minimum cut of R$50 billion.
