Do Bolsa Família ao Auxílio Brasil: impactos da transformação dos programas de transferência de renda nos municípios do Sertão do Pajéu

Abstract

Income transfer programs have played an important role in combating poverty and income inequality in Brazil over the years. This academic work aims to compare the impacts of the change from the Bolsa Família Program to the Auxílio Brasil program in the Sertão do Pajeú micro-region, based on the analysis of the transformation process from one program to the other; the economic and social characterization of the region under analysis and the study of data from CadÚnico on the evolution of the number of beneficiary families and amounts injected into the economy of this location. The theoretical framework included discussions about the emergence of these programs, their impacts and the transformation process. The methodological procedures adopted consisted of a descriptive quantitative analysis, based on data from the Ministry of Citizenship, IBGE and Ipea on the number of families registered in CadÚnico between 2020 and 2022, of the amounts injected into the economy by Bolsa Família and Auxílio Brasil, as well as data on the labor market and local population estimates. The document analysis technique was also used, where the law that established the Auxílio Brasil was worked on. The data obtained indicate that there was an increase in the number of families registered in CadÚnico between 2020 and 2022, as well as an increase in the amount, in reais, injected into the economy of Sertão do Pajeú since the change from Bolsa Família to Auxílio Brasil. Based on the results and discussions presented, there was an increase in the number of families registered in CadÚnico, therefore, consequently, an increase in the number of extremely poor and low-income families in Sertão do Pajeú. In addition, as a result of the exacerbated increase in the amount invested in Auxílio Brasil in the first quarter of 2022, damages related to increased inflation and loss of purchasing power are expected to be foreseen in the medium and long term.