O papel social da Previdência na economia do município de João Pessoa: análise do período 2000-2017

Abstract

This work sought to analyze the importance of social security benefits for the municipality of João Pessoa, from 2000 to 2017, based on data on the Municipal Participation Fund (MPF), and the amount passed on by social security, concerning the municipality of João Pessoa-PB in the years 2000, 2010 and 2017. The results show that social security benefits - when compared to transfers from the Municipal Participation Fund (MPF) - are a source of income for most of the localities in the country, and in if it is a question of local analysis, of the 223 municipalities of Paraiba, 103 cities have payments of benefits made by Social Security superior to the Constitutional Transfers of the FPM. For the municipality of João Pessoa, this comparison gives the economic dimension of social security, since Paraíba is considered one of the Brazilian states with greater dependence on fund transfers. The results confirm the great importance that the Social Security plays in the lives of the beneficiaries, attributing essential elements to guarantee the full exercise of citizenship in the present and in the future. In general they indicate that Social Security exerts an extraordinary influence in the personal economy, constituting propeller of active functioning of the economy.