Bolsa Família helps change the future of beneficiaries’ children

A large part of the dependents of Bolsa Família beneficiaries in 2005 were no longer, a decade and a half later, in any government social program. The data are from a study by seven researchers, including members of the Institute for Mobility and Social Development, PUC-Rio and FGV. The survey considers dependents who were between 7 and 16 years of age in 2005, the first generation of the program. In this universe, 64% were no longer enrolled in the Single Registry for Social Programs in 2019. For the researchers, the results show that Bolsa Família brings “better living conditions” in the long term. A survey by FGV Ibre, in turn, reveals more dependence on income from social programs and less on work today. The share of labor in household income went from 75.3% in 2021 to 74.2% in 2023, while that of social programs changed from 2.6% to 3.7%.