Power360 report showed that 7 million beneficiaries have been on the program for 10 years or more; For Wellington Dias, changes in rules help people risk the job market
The Minister of Social Development, argued that the way to reduce the number of long -dependent beneficiaries in Bolsa Familia is to promote employment and the creation of rules that allow these people to risk the job market without losing their benefit instantly.
In an interview with Poder360 On Monday (14.br.2025), the minister said that partnerships with the private sector and access to microcredit are measures adopted by the government that have resulted.
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O Poder360 It showed that of the 20.6 million families registered with Bolsa Familia, 7 million receive money from the program 10 years or more, according to February 2025 data.
This number represents 34.1% of the total and shows the difficulty that some portions of the population have to stop depending on the state to maintain themselves.
The data is exclusive and were obtained via, with crossing information from the.
The region that has the highest percentage of beneficiaries in long dependence is the North East: 38.8% (or 3.7 million) have been on the program since 2015 or before. North (33.7%), South (29.5%), Southeast (29.1%) and Midwest (26.9%) appear in the sequence.
In the interview, the minister also stated that 89% of jobs created with a portfolio signed in 2025 are from the Single Registry. There are 474 thousand people from a balance of 531 thousand. By 2024, the number reached 98.8%.
“We change the rules there in 2023 and neither does it know this new rule. Nor the business sector, nor those who are beneficiaries of Bolsa Familia. [o ministro quis dizer o benefício]. Ensuring that the act of signing the wallet is what we want. We want the job, we want the person to grow ”, these.
Days stated that the Lula government created a “Security Pocket” By changing the rules of Bolsa Familia so that people are not afraid of losing their benefit when undertaking and having a new job, with the automatic way and back to the program depending on income.
One of them is the “Protection rule”, which allows subscribers to increase income to receive 50% of the assistance amount for up to 24 months. Families with income of up to R $ 218 per person may receive the benefit and comply with all registration requirements.
“What plays for the land these people don’t want to work. When we look, there are still a lot of seasonal job. […] And these people want to grow. In the past they cut off Bolsa Familia and still entered a queue when I lost the job that took 1 year, 2 years to be able to return. […] Another change is that when you leave Bolsa Familia and lose your job up front, it comes back automatically ”, these.
Wellington Dias also that the range of the low -income population R $ 3.1 billion 200,000 people registered in the Single Registry since the launch, in October 2024. The appeal is intended for microentrepreneurs and has lower interest offers offered by partner financial institutions.
The program allows beneficiaries of Bolsa Familia and those who are registered in the Cadastro Único can have access to credit with guidelines for entrepreneurship. The initiative offers professional qualification courses.
The contributions reach $ 21,000. Those who are 16 to 65 years old can participate. People with disabilities, women, youth, blacks and members of traditional and riverside populations have priority.
In the interview, the minister said that the Ministry of Social Development developed a partnership with the Ministry of Health to identify low -income people addicted to sports bets, the so -called Bets. The goal is to treat these beneficiaries, as well as in cases of other dependencies, and ensure that the program’s resource is actually used to support the family.
In November 2024, the Supreme Court Minister, Luiz Fux, the use of social benefits resources in online bets. In December, however, the AGU that the government does not have the tools to prevent social programs from being directed to bets, as the executive cannot differentiate money from Bolsa Familia from other rents that enter the bank account of the beneficiaries.
According to Dias, the government identified last year that only 3.4% of beneficiaries used the betting program card.
Combat to fraud
Dias stated that the government implemented in March a new system to curb fraud in the Bolsa Familia beneficiaries register capable of crossing about 1.6 petabyte of information. Petabyte is one of the largest digital data measure units and 1 petabyte equals 1,024 terabytes.
“During this time, to get an idea, on the one hand, we brought 5.3 million people who were entitled to the benefit and were starving, were out. But also 4.1 million were canceled by robust proof that had fraud, had some irregularity,” these.
In March, the government with the determination that families – or that is, composed of only one person – will have to register or register update through home interview to gain access to the Bolsa Familia Program and the Gas Aid Program.
Those who do not meet this requirement will be prevented from entering the programs. The change was published in Ordinance on March 26 in the DOU (Official Gazette) and modifies Article 10 of Ordinance MDS and article 8 of Ordinance MC. This is the Ordinance (PDF – 356kb). The government now needs to regulate the rule.
“Those who have the right, are assured, will have Bolsa Familia, the BPC, all the benefits. Here there will be no lack of resources for this, but if it has fraud, we have no tolerance either,” these.
