Programa Bolsa Família (PBF)
Program Initiator: Federal Government of Brazil
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Goal: to reduce poverty and inequality by providing a minimum level of income for extremely poor families, empowering PBF beneficiaries by linking them to complementary services, such as employment training and social assistance programmes.
Brief description: Households eligible for the Bolsa Família programme receive a monthly income transfer based on their household income and composition. The conditionalities attached to these transfers include school attendance for teenagers, immunisation of children, prenatal monitoring for pregnant women, and remedial education for children and for those at risk of being drawn into child labour. Local governments collect the data on eligibility and compliance, but payments are made by the federal government. Each beneficiary receives a debit card which is charged up every month, unless the recipient has not met the necessary conditions, in which case (and after a couple of warnings) the payment is suspended.