# Brazil enacts Bolsa Família as a unified federal cash-transfer statute Date: 2003 ## The fact On 20 October 2003 Law 10.836 created Bolsa Família, unifying federal cash transfers under Lula. ## Context FHC-era Bolsa Escola sat as a parent. Neighbouring ProUni is 2004. Caixa paid. He did not sit as every social worker. 2003 oath is the parent term. 2023 relaunch is a later child. The President of Brazil heads the federal executive, sanctions statutes, and commands the armed forces as a political principal. He does not write STF judgments, INPE satellite pixels, a US tariff proclamation, or a Venezuelan CNE tally. Congress, governors, Petrobras, and coalition partners share specific files. ## Evidence and sources Presidency of Brazil carries the official instrument or communique. Reuters records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [household purchasing power](/drivers/household-purchasing-power) and [income inequality](/drivers/income-inequality): a completed federal cash-transfer statute is a dated poverty-instrument. ## What is established and what is not Established: 20 October 2003 enactment of Law 10.836, independently reported. Not established: a unique later Gini print from that Monday, or that Mensalão never sat. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He sanctioned. Caixa and municipalities paid. Beneficiaries received.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Brazil enacts Bolsa Família as a unified federal cash-transfer statute, not a later speech about Brazil enacts Bolsa Família as a unified federal cash-transfer statute. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Brazil enacts Bolsa Família as a unified federal cash-transfer statute on 2003-10-20 is not a licence to treat every later Presidency of Brazil communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Brazil enacts Bolsa Família as a unified federal cash-transfer statute into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to Congress passed. He sanctioned. Caixa and municipalities paid. Beneficiaries received. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: https://factrail.ai/people/lula ## Drivers - Household Purchasing Power: https://factrail.ai/drivers/household-purchasing-power - Income Inequality: https://factrail.ai/drivers/income-inequality ## Sources - https://www.reuters.com/article/us-brazil-poverty-idUSN2030120320031020 - https://www.planalto.gov.br/ccivil_03/leis/2003/l10.836.htm ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/br-bolsa-familia-2003