Decree provides for payment of extra gas aid until the end of 2023

President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva edited decree on the night of this Thursday (1st) which guarantees the payment of an additional 50% in the gas allowance until the end of the year.

The additional amount was included in the Provisional Measure that resumed the Bolsa Família program, approved today in the Senate.

Since January, the government had already provided for the payment of the extra amount by issuing a provisional measure, which came into effect immediately.

However, this measure, to remain valid, needed to be approved by the House and the Senate within 120 days. The MP was not even analyzed by Congress and lost its validity. However, the parliamentarians incorporated the additional provision in the Bolsa Família MP, which is now going to be sanctioned by President Lula.

The gas aid aims to help low-income families with the purchase of cooking gas. With the decree, each family will receive half the value of a 13 kg LPG cylinder. As the normal and additional aid are equal, that is half the amount, families will receive the equivalent of the average of a canister. The aid and the additional will be deposited every two months.