What is Aid Brazil?

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This is a new social program for direct and indirect income transfer. The Auxílio Brasil program integrates several public policies such as education, social assistance, health, employment and income.

The program's creation aims to assist families living in poverty and extreme poverty, a recurring issue in Brazil.

The Auxílio Brasil program ensures that families receive a basic income and encourages them to become self-sufficient and escape the social vulnerability they are in.

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The Brazil Aid program is coordinated by the Ministry of Citizenship, the body responsible for managing the benefits and sending funds for payment of the program.

Who can participate in the Auxílio Brasil program?

?Families that are in poverty or extreme poverty and that have, in their composition, at least one of the following can participate in the Auxílio Brasil program: children, pregnant women, nursing mothers (mothers who breastfeed), adolescents and young people between 0 and 21 years of age.

Families with an emancipation rule can also participate in the Auxílio Brasil program.

Family in poverty: monthly per capita family income of R$ 105,01 (one hundred and five reais and one cent) and R$ 210,00 (two hundred and ten reais).

Family in extreme poverty: monthly per capita income of up to R$ 105,00 (one hundred and five reais).

What are the objectives of the Auxílio Brasil program?

The program’s objectives include the following proposals:

  • Propose citizenship with guaranteed income and support, through the benefits offered by Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS), the articulation of policies aimed at beneficiaries;
  • Promote, as a priority, the development of children and adolescents, based on financial support for pregnant women, nursing mothers, children and adolescents from families in situations of poverty or extreme poverty;
  • Promote the development of children in early childhood, focusing on health and stimulating physical, cognitive, linguistic and socio-affective skills, in accordance with the provisions of Law No. 13.257, of March 8, 2016;
  • Encourage children, adolescents and young people to have excellent scientific and technological performance;
  • Expand the provision of care for children in daycare centers;
  • Stimulate the emancipation of families in situations of poverty and extreme poverty.

The Auxílio Brasil program's main objective is to help the many Brazilian families who need support to develop in a dignified way and with real possibilities for growth, a right of every human being.


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