Auxílio emergencial: análise do perfil dos beneficiários

Abstract

The new coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic brough impact all over the world. Due to the restrictive measures for people’s circulation and paralization of comercial activities, people parcially or totally lost their incomes. In light of that, several countries developed income transfer policies so that these individuals recover their incomes during the pandemic time. In Brazil, the federal government created the Emergencial Aid (EA), aiming the assurance of the minimum income to brazillians and attended close to 107 million of brazilians, direcly or indirecly. This study analyse the EA benefit using PNAD COVID-19 data, leaning over indicators such as income, scholarity, sex, skin color and habitation; proposing to present observations that the new income transfer policy are able to reach all of the ones who need it. Under this view, the EA, such as the Bolsa Família Program (BFP), has a majority of women, brown people, people with high school and urban zones habitants as their beneficiaries profile.