Bolsa Familia grows again after cuts in January

by Andrea
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Program has 20,558,394 families registered in February, up 0.4% compared to the previous month, when there was a cut of 325 thousand beneficiaries

The number of beneficiaries of the number of 0.4% in February 2025 and the program will reach 20.56 million families, with this Monday (17.FEV).

In January, the government of the president (PT) 325 thousand registrations of the program. A “comb” operation is underway, still very shyly, to take people who may be receiving the money without meeting the criteria.

The monthly expense on the program in February will be R $ 13.811 billion, compared to R $ 13,800 billion in January. The average benefit will be R $ 671.81 per family.

In all 5,571 locations in Brazil (counting Brasilia and Fernando de Noronha, who are not cities) there is at least one person receiving money from Bolsa Familia.

The municipality with the smallest number of beneficiaries is São Domingos do Sul (RS), the from Porto Alegre. There are 7 families registered in the social program.

In the table below, learn how many families receive money from the program in your city (click on the columns to order by UF, name and amount of beneficiaries; to open in another tab, click):

By regions, Bolsa Familia is distributed like this, by families:

  • North East: 9.4 million;
  • Southeast: 5.9 million;
  • Norte: 2.6 million;
  • On the: 1.5 million;
  • Midwest: 1.1 million.

More registered than houses

O Poder360 On February 12 that 10 Brazilian cities had more people in Bolsa Familia than home. This situation remained in February.

Serrano do Maranhão continues to have the most dramatic situation, with 5,036 families (in January, 5,041) in the social program and 3,953 houses in the city.


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