A PROTEÇÃO PREVIDENCIÁRIA PREVISTA NO ACORDO MULTILATERAL DE SEGURIDADE SOCIAL DO MERCOSUL

Abstract

This research addresses the social security protection for workers from countries signatory to the MERCOSUL Multilateral Agreement on Social Security, which was signed on 15th December 1997 and entered into force on 1st June 2005. In Brazil, the agreement was approved by Legislative Decree No. 451 of 14th November 2001 and promulgated by Decree No. 5.722 of 13th March 2006. The Multilateral Agreement on Social Security (AMSS) coordinates the various national laws that deal with Social Security, without creating a common law or rule for the member states, apart from creating a procedure for recognition of pension contributions on time worked in any of the member states. This research discusses the guarantee of the right to social security benefits to workers who move with their families within the MERCOSUL countries, and it also aims to examine the advances in the field of social security in the context of regional integration from the point of view of social security protection; to discuss the strengths and weaknesses of social security protection under the Multilateral Agreement on Social Security and to present the standards for access to benefits through the agreement. The research is qualitative and the data was collected in databases and through bibliographical research. The research is organized into three chapters which discuss: regional integration and the establishment of MERCOSUL; the international agreements regarding international Social Security; the international organizations relating to Social Security, as well as the operational standards of MERCOSUL’s Multilateral Agreement on Social Security.