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Bolsonaro announces 13th month payment for 14 million of Family Fund recipients
The more than 14 million recipients of the “Bolsa Familia” will get a 13th month payment, Bolsonaro said at a ceremony celebrating his first 100 days in office Brazil's right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro announced Thursday an expansion of a social welfare program that was created by his jailed left-wing foe Lula da Silva.
The more than 14 million recipients of the “Bolsa Familia” or “Family Fund” will get a 13th month payment, Bolsonaro said at a ceremony celebrating his first 100 days in office.
The expansion of the program, which Bolsonaro had promised during last year's election campaign, will cost 2.58 billion reais (some US$ 680 million).
The monthly payments for the country's poorest, introduced by former leftist president Lula at the beginning of his first term in 2003, average 186 Reais and are contingent on the family sending their children to school.
Bolsonaro had said in 2017, when he was still a congressman, that he would not expand the program. “I'm not going to do demagoguery to get votes,” he said.
Lula, who has been sentenced to 25 years behind bars in two separate corruption cases, marked his first year in jail on April 7. Bolsonaro is a strident critic of Lula, a leftist icon.
Lula has denied all the charges against him, claiming they were politically motivated with the aim of preventing him competing in elections last year that Bolsonaro won.
During his election campaign, Bolsonaro said he hoped Lula would “rot in prison.”
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Read all comments“The more than 14 million recipients of the “Bolsa Familia” or “Family Fund” will get a 13th month payment, Bolsonaro said at a ceremony celebrating his first 100 days in office”
Apr 13th, 2019 - 06:31 pm 0The PT, besides claiming to be the founders of the BF concept (not entirely true) and liking to take credit for being so “socially-minded”, always looking out for the poor, is extremely upset with this move......only because it was not them that thought of it.
Sounds a lot like Lula's criticism of the concept before he was elected....but rushed to implement it after he was......the PT will always be the PT....voting against every government project, even if it might be good for the country, if not presented by them.
“Sounds a lot like Lula's criticism of the concept before he was elected....but rushed to implement it after he was”
Apr 13th, 2019 - 09:50 pm 0“Bolsonaro had said in 2017, when he was still a congressman, that he would not expand the program. “I'm not going to do demagoguery to get votes,” he said.”
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
I'm curious what the PT found to criticise in this....
REF: “Bolsonaro announces”
Apr 14th, 2019 - 03:43 pm 0“ANNOUNCES”!
Please DO calm down - it's just an announcement - a STUNT at its BEST - unless of course if the gullible are BENT UPON blindly believing - and eagerly too - in the Cooked-Up Fairy-Tales!
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