Rising poverty has been accompanied by an assault on brazil's much admired social safety net. The number of families admitted to bosofamilia has dropped from about 275 thousand a month to fewer than 25 hundred. And the total number of people in the programme has fallen by more than a million families. But i met dozens of people who have had their benefits cut for unexplained reasons, and really need the money.

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