Transfers comprise a wide range of heterogeneous policies, designed around a number of policy objectives. From the perspective of poverty and inequality, the most important ones are pensions and the conditional cash transfer programme Bolsa Familia which is now part of the larger policy package Brasil Sem Miseria (Brazil without Misery). While initially some of the benefits w'ere available only to households with children, households without children have by now become eligible for all the benefits necessary to lift them above the poverty line.