Elderly Covid-19 deaths affect poor families in Brazil
The study proved that Brazilian households´ income dropped 47.1% from April to May 2020, and a 23.6% stiff earning step-down.
Among those people who are currently working with no formal contract, the households´ decreased income reached 79.8% and the absence of capital in 55.3%.
Income downturn also affected those with a per capita family income below a minimum wage.
'With no work, family members begin to be dependent on the elderly, many of them retirees or beneficiaries of policies such as the so-called Continuous Economic Benefit,' Juliana Inhaz, professor and economic coordinator at the Higher Education Institute (INSPER), stressed.
We can say that when an elderly person dies, a whole family falls into poverty in Brazil, stressed Ana Amélia Camarano, author of ¨The elderly dependent on income and coronavirus: Orphans or new poor?¨ study.
Another study, carried out by the Institute for Applied Economic Research, found that 35% of Brazilian households has at least one old person and 18.1% of them are deemed to be the only livelihood.
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