BENEFÍCIOS SOCIOASSISTENCIAIS COMO DIREITO DO CIDADÃO: CONQUISTAS E DESAFIOS EM TEMPOS DE AJUSTES FISCAIS

Abstract

The purpose for this dissertation aims the provided benefits of social welfare in Article 20 and 22, Social Welfare Organic Law framed during the post Federal Constitution in 1988. It focuses on the 90’s and after 2015. The origin of this qualitative and quantitative research views a methodological procedure, bibliographic and documental research. The empirical research grasps eighteen cities integrated the Family Secretariat Regional Office in Ponta Grossa and Paraná’s Social Development, whom: Arapoti, Carambeí, Castro, Imbaú, Ipiranga, Ivaí, Jaguariaíva, Ortigueira, Palmeira, Piraí do Sul, Ponta Grossa, Porto Amazonas, Reserva, São João do Triunfo, Sengés, Telêmaco Borba, Tibagi e Ventania. This article was organized in four chapters. Chapter I presents historical process of citizenship development and corresponding rights, the fundamental rights as assigned for personal’s background status and the possibilities of their guarantees focus on conscious citizens active participation as right holders. Chapter II approaches historical development of Brazilian citizenship in front of a State associated to a conservative elite and set by a political culture of patronage system as social rights construction during the Federal Constitution in 1988 with emphasis on Social Welfare. Chapter III is about the Nation Policy of Social and its management by the Unique Systems of Social Welfare process approaching the Brazilian Federalism. Chapter IV assimilates how the Social Welfare benefits are realized due to dissonance between Continuous Cash Benefit and Eventual Benefit with respect to the law, financing, management and social control as fiscal adjustments in this political sphere of Welfare Social, in addition to the continuing practice with clientelistic concession of Eventual Benefits which prevent their consolidation in the citizens' rights. On final considerations, it's pointed out that social rights are historical achievements that, when materialized , make it possible to exercise and expand the citizenship status. As a result of the factual possibilities of each socio-political and economic context, the social rights, among them social welfare benefits, are seriously threatened by the recrudescence of neoliberal ideology.