More than 43 million people leave the poverty line in June

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.

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<span style="color:#323232;">Bahia was the state with the highest number of families that surpassed the income bracket in June: 2.26 million households. Then come São 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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">“Bolsa Família, 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 line”, highlighted, in a note, the Ministry of Development and Social Assistance, Family and Combat. the hunger.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">According to the MDS, in March, the federal government relaunched Bolsa Família 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.
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</span><span style="color:#323232;">According to the ministry, with the reformulation, the ticket Bolsa Família reached the highest value in the history of the program: R$ 705.4.
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