Benefício de prestação continuada: desafios e questões atuais

• Autor(a) principal: Reis, Míriam Fátima
• Data de Publicação: 2011
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15880
• topic: Welfare policy; Social assistance policy; Continuous cash benefit program (BPC); Política social Rio de Janeiro (RJ); Assistência Social Rio de Janeiro (RJ); Política social; Política de assistência social; Benefício de prestação continuada (BPC); CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::SERVICO SOCIAL

The present Thesis seeks a reflection upon the characteristics and meaning of the Benefício de Prestação Continuada BPC (Continuous Cash Benefit Program) as a component of the Social Assistance policy. This benefit forms the Social Assistance main entitlement since it is the only constitutionally warranted. It ensures the payment of a monthly minimum wage for elderly aged 65 or more and handicapped people with family monthly income inferior to ¼ of minimum wage per family member. The Thesis therefore seeks to analyze the proposed changes, achieved results and current challenges to BPC in the city of Rio de Janeiro, in view of the new perspectives presented by the Sistema Único de Assistência Social-SUAS (Single System of Social Assistance) to this benefit since 2005 and subsequently by the Decree 6.214/2007. A research has been carried out to seek a comprehension of the current situation and characteristics of this Benefit, in Rio de Janeiro, within the Social Assistance policy and the Instituto Nacional de Seguro Social-INSS (National Institute of Social Welfare) frameworks, for the effectiveness of the proposal. The study developed in the Thesis revealed that, among other aspects, although the intense motion in terms of propositions in the Social Assistance federal policy sphere, in view of referring the expected changes to BPC, this effort does not have the required political support to promote these proposals and to create effective conditions for their materialization, especially within the municipal realm, where the policy is effectively applied. Thus, in the analyzed period of the year of 2010, we have the conception of the BPC as an external factor to Rio de Janeiro s Social Assistance city policy. In fact, this situation reflects the Social Assistance historical detachment vis à vis this Benefit and, in spite of the fundamental role of the Benefit to this policy institutionalization as a component area of Social Welfare, it remains presently without a real identity with the Social Assistance.