In March 2020, shortly after the first public calamity decree, several activist groups, entities and social organizations came together to prepare a basic income proposal aimed at fighting the pandemic . In the future, the idea would be called “emergency aid”, but one of the concerns of the real creators of the proposal was the emptying of the meaning, through the change of the name by the government, because as the saying goes: “everybody wants to have a beautiful son”. be father".
While the groups organized themselves to pressure the governors in favor of this income, both the Executive and the Legislative Powers also moved in favor of the same cause. Although the petition for basic income was launched on March 23, the organization of the proposal had been in the works for some time. It was in the context of elaborating the idea that these movements met with representatives of the Legislature, in order to build a counter-proposal to a bill of a deputy from the government, which would be deliberated at any time in the Chamber of Deputies.
However, the bill by deputy Eduardo Barbosa was approved on April 26, but with changes, setting the value of R$ 600 per adult, with a maximum of two adults per family and double the value for single mothers, offering opportunity of access to all citizens in informal work, with specific income, in addition to the duration of three months. Later on, new mobilizations would occur.
