A percepção dos usuários sobre os benefícios eventuais no município de Sapé, PB: obstáculo para afirmação da assistência social enquanto direito

Abstract

This work presents the results of research conducted in the city of Sapé, PB, that had as objective identify the perception that the users of the social assistance politics have about the eventual benefits, considering the perspectives of the right and of the help, and analyzing it as its repercussions for the process of affirming the social assistance as a right. Thus, the data collecting was conducted between the months of November 2013 and December 2014 and was made through the observation, by the review of the documents and literature pertinent and by the application of the formularies with the users that had access the benefits, with reference to the month of August 2013. Altogether, it was identified that the perception of beneficiaries reflects the limitations presents in the legal and operational plans, approaching more of the help than the notion of the right, setting is, therefore, an obstacle to the consolidation of the right to social assistance. Starts by the presupposition that the social assistance, instituted as right ensured by the Constitution and by specific law, don't have the faculty of, by itself, leave the traces of one past full of practices and conceptions misrepresented. For this, it is necessary to stimulate political projections that guides their management to the sense of break this paradigm, at one movement that integrate all their provisions to the assurance of the users' rights. The regulation and operation of the eventual benefits, as components of the Brazilian’s System of Social Assistance (SUAS), presents itself as an indispensable element in this process of consolidation, once these have particular association with welfarism and clientelism expresses along the career of the social assistance and that, and how is possible to deduce from the data that describes the reality of the manage this right, presented in this discussion, still resist insistently.