Social Assistance and social security

Social protection network
Six out of ten workers have social security in Brazil. The target is to expand this number and simultaneously develop programs and equipment that serve those who live below socially acceptable levels.

To that end, social policies were unified; income transfer, social assistance, as well as food and nutritional safety policies and programs, direct combat against hunger and malnutrition. Some of these strategic priorities are income transfer programs such as the Bolsa Família Program, the largest of this kind in Brazil.

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• Some of the government’s strategic priorities are the income transfer programs such as Bolsa Família

Social Programs

Numbers of Bolsa Família in 2010

Resources from Bolsa Família in 2010
R$ 13.4 billion

Families served in 2010
12.8 million

Average value of the benefit
R$ 96.00
Source: Ministry of Social Development and Combat against Hunger (contenido en portugués)

Eradication of Child Labor Program in 2010
837.7 thousand children and teenagers served 
Source: Ministry of Social Development and Combat against Hunger (contenido en portugués)

Social Security

Social Security Net Inflow in 2010
R$ 217,525.1 million 
Source: Ministry of Social Security / DATAPREV(contenido en portugués)

Expenses with payment of benefits in 2010
R$ 261,878.3 million

Expenses with benefits in the rural area in 2010
R$ 55,472.6 million

Expenses with benefits in the urban area in 2010
R$ 199,386 million

Benefits from 2001 to 2010
Increase of 36.3%, going from 17.9 million to 24.4 million

Actual average value of benefits in 2010
R$ 800.19 from January to December of 2010

Private Pension

Total Inflow in November of 2010
R$ 216.9 billion 
Source: Fenaprevi (contenido en portugués)

Increase in November of 2010
Growth of 21.69%
Source: Fenaprevi (contenido en portugués)