AUXÍLIO EMERGENCIAL NA PARAÍBA: UM ESTUDO A PARTIR DA PLATAFORMA COVID-19/PB

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic has made visible and maximized historical and structural social inequalities in world societies. In Brazil, in particular, the income transfer program, Auxílio Emergencial, was configured as a measure adopted by the Federal Government to face the socio-sanitary crisis, positively impacting the maintenance of the lives of vulnerable segments of society throughout the country. In this sense, the present Course Completion Work aims to analyze the social indicators referring to Emergency Aid in the state of Paraíba, highlighting the beneficiaries via Extracad, carried out via the Caixa application, which were not included in CadÚnico. The main reference of the study will be the COVID19/PB Platform, an observatory of social and health indicators in Paraíba. This is an exploratory study, with a quantitative-qualitative approach, as well as using secondary data, official statistics, social indicators and data from bibliographic and documentary sources, in order to reflect on the impact of the aforementioned benefit in the territory of Paraíba. It is likely that everything will be reviewed in the coming months or years, based on experiences gained from assessing the economy and pandemic influence. As a result, it was found that structural social inequalities were maximized in the pandemic, that Emergency Aid proved to be important for the maintenance of the lives of its beneficiaries, and also, it was verified from the Extracad access, that there was an increase in demand for SUAS from the “newly vulnerable” by the pandemic on the soil of Paraíba.