All families with per capita incomes of BRL 70 per person are now receiving the amount of transfers necessary to lift their incomes to this level. This implies that, according to the BRL 70-definition, extreme poverty is almost eradicated by now, with the exception of a few households that are not covered by Bolsa Familia, e.g. perhaps because they have not yet been discovered by the Single Registry’s active search policy. By addressing specific bottlenecks of individual families, these programmes are meant to make the escape from poverty more sustainable and enable families to move away from dependence on transfer incomes.