The Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger (MDS) informed, this Wednesday (12), that 43.5 million people, or 18.52 million families, left the poverty line in June, that is, they started to have monthly incomes higher than R$ 218 per capita.
Bahia was the state with the highest number of families that surpassed the income bracket in June: 2.26 million households. Then come SĂŁo Paulo, with 2.25 million families rising above the poverty line; Rio de Janeiro, with 1.63 million; Pernambuco, with 1.48 million; and Minas Gerais, with 1.38 million.
âBolsa FamĂlia, relaunched in March and fully implemented in the last month, is largely responsible for raising the income of the most vulnerable population above the poverty lineâ, highlighted, in a note, the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Combat. the hunger.
According to the MDS, in March, the federal government relaunched Bolsa FamĂlia with a minimum value of R$ 600 and an additional R$ 150 for children up to 6 years old. In June, it granted variable benefits of R$ 50 for pregnant women, children and adolescents between 7 and 18 years old, and the minimum per capita value of the program became R$ 142.
According to the ministry, with the reformulation, the ticket Bolsa FamĂlia reached the highest value in the history of the program: R$ 705.4.
Is this good?
Are people making more money or is inflation juking the stats?