Assist Brazil: Lula’s team evaluate giving everyone a discount card – 12/14/2022

president-elect team, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (PT), Analyzes Debit Card Giving To All beneficiaries From Brazil aid, instead of just using the Caixa app. This would make people’s lives easier, but the cost of making the cards could reach R$178 million.

Why do we give Brazil aid cards?

• Easy to use money. For example, the card can be used to buy a supermarket. Today all users can convert their interest through the Caixa Tem application and by pix🇧🇷
• Those who do not have a mobile phone, internet connection or do not know how to use the application need to withdraw money from the bank or lottery.
• The Auxílio Brasil card already exists, and has been adopted in July by the Bolsonaro government🇧🇷 It allows you to make purchases in stores and withdraw money from the Caixa network and the Banco24horas network.
• But the card currently serves only 8.5 million of Auxílio Brasil’s 21 million beneficiaries, according to Caixa. 12.5 million people are missing.

The app assumes you have space on your cell phone to download it and an internet connection, which is difficult for very low-income residents. A debit card simplifies this: the money goes to a citizen’s account, which can work without the Internet or a phone
Marcia Comera retired Caixa employee who coordinated the preparation of the report

What is the caption on the card?

• The cost is high. According to Caixa, the cost of issuing an Auxílio Brasil Program Card is R$14.24 per unit, the amount being funded by the Ministry of Citizenship. People pay nothing.
• If 12.5 million cards were issued, the total value would be R$178 million.
• There are no exact amounts about the cost of the proposal. The new government will continue to comb beneficiaries to eliminate fraud and only then will decide whether or not to introduce cards for all.
• The future government has also not said whether it will use or discard the existing cards, which are branded Auxílio Brasil, from the Bolsonaro government. The name of the program will be changed to Bolsa Familia.
• If the 8.5 million cards already issued were discarded, the cost of replacing them would be more than R$121 million.