{"id":14194,"date":"2014-05-02T05:34:47","date_gmt":"2014-05-02T05:34:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/welfare-tax-boost-for-brazil-poor\/"},"modified":"2014-05-02T05:33:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-02T05:33:59","slug":"welfare-tax-boost-for-brazil-poor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/welfare-tax-boost-for-brazil-poor\/","title":{"rendered":"Welfare & Tax Boost for Brazil Poor"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff has announced a 10% increase in social security payments as well as tax cuts for the less well-off.<\/p>\n

The changes will affect 36 million low-income families.<\/p>\n

The announcements come ahead of a October’s presidential poll, in which Ms Rousseff will seek a second term.<\/p>\n

Her popularity has dropped in recent weeks because of high inflation and mismanagement accusations involving Brazil’s state oil giant Petrobras.<\/p>\n

The amendments to the social security programme, known as Bolsa Familia, were announced ahead of Labour Day.<\/p>\n

“This will be an important indirect salary gain and more money in the pockets of workers,” Ms Rousseff said.<\/p>\n

Along with the increase in payments there would be a 4.5 % rise in the income bands used to tax workers, she added.<\/p>\n

Brazil is struggling to keep inflation under the official target rate of 6.5 %.<\/p>\n

An April opinion poll found support for Ms Rousseff had slipped from 44% in February to 37% in April, though she remains the frontrunner.<\/p>\n

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