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Government mulls extending emergency aid

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Amidst the difficulties in enabling the creation of Auxílio Brasil, a cash-transfer program that will replace Bolsa Família, a federal government source confirmed to Valor that the possibility of extending the emergency aid payments until April 2022 is under study, but there is no final decision yet."Studies always exist. We are making an assessment, but there is no definition," said a government assistant who is monitoring the negotiations. The alternative began to be analyzed in the midst of the impasse to find a solution to the payment of court-ordered debts known as "precatorios" and the difficulties to pass the income tax reform in the Senate.The measure, however, is not well accepted in the Economy Ministry, where the idea faces "strong resistance," National Treasury Secretary Jeferson Bittencourt said.He pondered that emergency aid was created in a context of mobility restriction of people, difficulty in earning income and under the impact of the pandemic, with high levels of infection and deaths. "We are moving towards much more positive numbers," said the secretary.The secretary also ruled out the payment of the emergency aid extension as an extraordinary credit. For this, it would need to meet three requirements: relevance, urgency and unpredictability.The high unemployment rates, which have been used as an argument for the extension of the aid, meet the first two criteria, but cannot be classified as unpredictable, explained Mr. Bittencourt. The unpredictability is related to the impossibility of including an expense in the budget law, and the 2022 bill is making its...

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