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07/24/2012
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Amanda Cieglinski
Reporter Agency Brazil
Brasilia - More than 14,000 families have had the benefit of the Family Grant Program canceled in July due to the low attendance of children attending. The number represents 2.4% of the total seen in April, last month to monitor the frequency.
According to the Ministry of Social Development and Hunger Combat (MDS), beneficiaries have until July 31 to attend the halls and try to reverse the cancellation explaining the reasons for absences from school.
For the family receives the benefit, children and young people 6-15 years must be regularly enrolled in the school system and have at least 85% attendance. The notification process between the family and the cancellation takes about one year. During this period, the city should seek the family to identify the reasons for dropping out of school.
In degrees of punishment prior to exclusion, the ministry also suspended the payment of 61,000 benefits for 60 days for the same reason, and 72,000 are blocked in July. In the case of blocking, amounts are paid retroactively the following month.
In addition to families who have lost the benefit, 7,800 young people between 15 and 17 years were also withdrew from the program due to problems in meeting school attendance - the minimum required in this age group is 75%. In this case households lose only the amount related to each of the teenagers, it can be r$ 38 or r$ 76.
Editing: Davi Oliveira
Source: Agency Brazil
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