Finance Minister Fernando Haddad said on Wednesday (12) that the problem with the workers’ food program was that “money was being lost along the way.” According to the minister, the initiative’s resources should be allocated to the workers, but they have not reached this point.
He told reporters at the ministry’s headquarters: “It was money that should be allocated to workers, with tax benefits for companies that joined the program, and reached the end, which are the restaurant, the bakery, the market, and the supermarket. We began to realize that BAT’s money began to be an intermediary.”
The minister added that in addition to not reaching the worker, the program achieved a very high return rate and legally inappropriate behavior. “It’s a series of irregularities, but we want to look forward, which is why we set what we think is right from a profit point of view, which is a more civilized rate.”
Although he considered the new price more appropriate, Haddad admitted that it was still high, but pointed out that the previous level was “exorbitant.”
On Tuesday (11), President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva published a decree establishing new rules for the arrangements responsible for the payment of food vouchers and meal vouchers, within the scope of PAT and food assistance.
According to the Ministry of Finance, the new rules should generate savings of about R$8 billion annually. According to the ministry, the amount equates to an average profit of about R$225 per worker per year.
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