Políticas públicas e a construção do sistema de proteção social no Brasil: uma análise do benefício de prestação continuada

Abstract

This work has as main objective to bring the reader a critical reflection on the construction of the Brazilian social protection system, with special attention to the Office of Benefit of Continuous important advance in the field of social assistance. For this, the research presents theoretical-literature, drawing on the deductive method, in that, starting from the general idea of the historical evaluation of social policies in Brazil, came to the Benefit of Continuous, culminating in the analysis of their definitions and the most controversial aspects. The policy now under study, is directed to the elderly and disabled who do not have the means to support himself as a mechanism to resolve the socioeconomic vulnerability of these subjects and address the consequences of poverty and social inequality. Indeed, the research will lend itself to investigate the assumptions contained in the examples of contemporary theories of social justice that underlie the social protection as a mechanism for reducing social inequalities, while prestige to the state's responsibility in tackling poverty and its consequent limitation freedoms of individuals to socially vulnerable. The evolution of Brazilian social assistance has come a long way from being constitutionally recognized as a universal right and duty of the State by the Constitution of 1988. However the regulation of Beneficial Assistance, printed by the Law on Social Services, worked excessive selectivity in access, with a number of criteria delimiters that end up compromising the scope and breadth of this policy, both in the private individuals who need to receive this provision to survive with dignity, as in the aspect of socioeconomic development of the beneficiaries and, in addition, within the very social justice, as regards the fight against poverty in the country