Overview
- Brazil’s Education Ministry began releasing the first 2026 deposits on March 23, with credits scheduled through March 30 and January–February births paid on the 23rd.
- The initial transfer is a R$200 enrollment incentive automatically posted to eligible students’ Caixa Tem accounts.
- Eligibility is determined automatically for public high‑school students from families in CadÚnico, and releases depend on student data sent by state education secretariats.
- MEC also starts, in the same period, payments for students approved in the 2025 school year and for those who took the ENEM, according to the program’s guidance reported by the press.
- The ministry published the 2026 calendar on March 20, and additional payment windows are slated for late April to early May and late May to early June; students can track approval or pending status via the MEC portal and Caixa applications.