O benefício de prestação continuada na contemporaneidade brasileira: defesa de direitos nos percursos de ajuste do Estado

Abstract

This work marks as objects of study to analyze the expansion of the Continuous Cash Benefit (BPC) in the State of Rio Grande do Norte, in the period 2003 to 2014. The BPC is a right stipulated by the Federal Constitution of 1988, enrolled in politics of Social Assistance and composes the list of Social Security. Therefore, it is designed to the disabled, incapacitated to work, and the elder, aged over 65, who do not have the means to provide for their own support or having it provided by his family. In Brazilian contemporary, that benefit is part of the national trend of social policy in the XXI century - outlined by the prevalence of income transfer programs and benefits in the historic circuit when the Workers' Party (PT) headed the Brazilian executive. All of this situation developes in the structural crisis of capital's scene and in face of the worsening of social question expressions, like growing unemployment and widening poverty. In fact, the Social Assistance policy expands through the programs and benefits of transfering income, assuming centrality in the Brazilian social protection system in face of the contraditory situation of the state adjustment to the globalized capital, to undertake cuts in budget for implementation and execution of public social services. The study in question is based on a critical vision to grasp the object of research by the social historical determinations of capital's society in times of crisis, starting from the abstract to the concrete. The investigative process combined bibliographical and documental research, allowing understand the theoric and empiric categories, report analysis and avaliable studies by the National Association of Tax Auditors (ANFIP), World Bank (WB), the National Health Agency (ANS), Citizen Audit Debt, as well as data provided by the Unified Benefits information system (SUIBE) that is a part of the information system of Social Security (DATAPREV).