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Fiscal Challenge to Lula's Welfare Expansion Puts Brazil’s Budgetary Adequacy Under TCU Scrutiny

The Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Federal Court of Accounts requested an injunction to suspend President Lula’s decree raising the Bolsa Família benefit, citing a lack of budgetary provision and fiscal impact analysis.

By Tom Becker

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Fiscal Challenge to Lula's Welfare Expansion Puts Brazil’s Budgetary Adequacy Under TCU Scrutiny
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The Public Prosecutor’s Office at the Federal Court of Accounts requested an injunction to suspend President Lula’s decree raising the Bolsa Família benefit, citing a lack of budgetary provision and fiscal impact analysis.

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