According to Minister Simone Tebet, of Planning, the focus of the review is on people who receive Bolsa Família without being entitled.| Photo: Twitter Ministry of Planning/reproduction

Minister Simone Tebet, of Planning, said this Wednesday (26) that the cadastral review of Bolsa Família beneficiaries, announced in mid-February, should help the government save up to R$ 7 billion per year. The statement was given during a lunch with members of the Parliamentary Entrepreneurship Front.

According to Tebet, the government is reviewing the registers of people registered in the Cadastro Único “not to save money, but to see who is in the register and has no rights”.

“Especially single men who are working and who, many times, go into informality to be able to earn the R$600”, he said, as recorded by Politics 360.

The first fine-tooth comb of the cadastral review, released in early March, excluded about 1.4 million families that had some irregularity in the registry. The Ministry of Development and Social Assistance (MDS) stated at the time that 10 million families would undergo the update, 4.9 million of which would be single-person by the end of the year.

In addition to explaining the economy with the Bolsa Família revision, Simone Tebet also commented on the new fiscal framework, which is already in the Chamber of Deputies and should be voted on by mid-May. “We have a possible framework, a good framework. It doesn’t do anything else that the spending cap hasn’t already done,” she said.