Discover the new Fuel Aid program

With the rise in fuel prices, which suffered instability already in the pandemic and worsened by the situation of the war between Ukraine, making oil more expensive, Senator Jean Paul Prates (PT) designed a social program: the Fuel Aid.

The program was reported by Prates and executed by Senator Eduardo Braga (MDB), aiming to help the working population that depends on fuel for work. Learn more about Fuel Aid.

Getting to Know Fuel Aid

The Fuel Aid social program targets workers such as motoboys and taxi drivers, app drivers and others who perform work depending on a fuel-based vehicle.

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The amount intended for the program has a limit of R$ 3 billion reais. The proposal came in favor of the crisis that the world faces as a result of the pandemic and the war between Russia and Ukraine.

The project aims to reduce the losses resulting from these causalities, varying the price of oil and bringing instability to international markets, varying the values for the final consumer, with natural gas and cooking gas, in addition to fuels.

The program should carry out a change in the collection of ICMS (tax), which falls on fuels such as diesel, gasoline, biodiesel, cooking gas, natural gas and ethanol.

Resources used in the program

Senator Prates did not make it completely clear, in his speech, where the resources for the aid would come from, however, he declared that the aid will depend on fiscal, budgetary and financial possibilities.

For now, the program should not come into force, since, by law, it is not allowed to grant new tax advantages in an election year. They are only allowed in cases of public calamity, state of emergency, social programs that are already in progress before the election year and those permitted by law.

The program will be integrated into the CEP (Fuel Price Stabilization Account).

Who can receive Fuel Allowance?

As a target audience, the Fuel Aid social program has the drivers who use fuel-powered vehicles for work.

To participate, you must fit into one of these categories:

• Autonomous private transport driver: taxi drivers, app drivers, motoboy;
• Pilots or drivers of small boats with a vehicle with an engine of up to 16 HP;
• Drivers of mopeds or motorcycles, with an engine of up to 125 cc.

Drivers who fit into any of the aforementioned categories must also receive:

• R$ 300.00 – individual transport drivers;
• R$ 300.00 – drivers of small boats;
• R$ 100.00 – motorcyclists.

To receive it, it is still necessary for the citizen to prove that he has monthly family income up to a maximum of 3 minimum wages.