Programa bolsa família: perspectivas de ex beneficiários de saída voluntária

Abstract

The purpose of this Course Completion Work is to analyze the motivations that led some beneficiaries to voluntarily leave the Bolsa Família Program (PBF) in the municipality of João Pessoa. Seeking to identify who these former beneficiaries are, understand the real reasons that led them to leave the program and investigate what the Bolsa Família contributions in their life. It is an exploratory study, of a qualitative nature, that seeks to perceive the senses that the subjects attribute to a certain social phenomenon. The preparation of this work took place through reading and analysis of the bibliography and documents about the programs of transfer of income in general and about the Bolsa Família Program in specific. This paper traces the trajectory of how the Brazilian System of Social Protection was constituted and the importance of the Programs of Transfer of Income to the confrontation of the poverty. It highlights the main income transfer programs in Brazil, the importance of the Cadastro Único and the contributions of Bolsa Família in improving the lives of its beneficiaries. In addition to bringing reports of former beneficiaries, who participated in the interviews, exposing their experiences with Bolsa Família. The results showed significant contributions, such as the improvement in food, income supplement, among others, that the Bolsa Família exercised in the lives of these beneficiaries during the period of insertion of the program. The reports made by the former beneficiaries showed us that the motivations that led them to leave the program go far beyond improving income. And the academic debate about the largest income transfer program in Brazil is very relevant considering the current political economic period experienced by the country.