0328/2016 - Social protection and people with disabilities in Brazil. Proteção social e pessoa com deficiência no brasil social protection and disabled people in Brazil.
• Nilson do Rosário Costa - Costa, Nilson do Rosário - Oswaldo Cruz Foundation, Social Sciences - <nilsondorosario@gmail.com>
Co-author(s):
• Miguel Abud Marcelino Abud Marcelino - Abud Marcelino, Miguel Abud Marcelino - COPPEX/FMP-FASE , Núcleo de Informação, PolÃticas Públicas e Inclusão Social - <migmarc08@hotmail.com> • Cristina Maria Rabelais Duarte - Duarte, CMR - ICICT/FIOCRUZ , Laboratório de Informação em Saúde do Instituto de Comunicação e Informação - <crisrabelais@gmail.com> • Deborah Uhr Uhr - Uhr , Deborah Uhr - Departamento de Psicologia – UFRRJ - <deborahuhr@terra.com.br>
Thematic Area:
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Abstract:
Objective: The article analyzes the social protection policy for disabled people in Brazil. It describes the patterns of demand and eligibility for Continued Payment Benefits (BenefÃcio de Prestação Continuada – BPC) in the period 1996-2014. The article argues that BPC is a direct result of the social pact achieved by Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988. BPC is a social assistance benefit consisting in an unconditional and monthly transference of the equivalent of a minimum wage, to poor people with deficiency and elders with more than 65 years. Disabled person eligibility depends on means-test and social and medical evaluation by public bureaucracy. Method: The research strategy was based on time series and cross-sectional data collection and analysis. Dummy qualitative variables were also used to describe the pattern of demand and eligibility. Results: The article demonstrates that BPC has provided income to disabled and elder people. However, it was identified systematic barriers to disable people access BPC. The work suggests that pattern of refusal could be associated a means testing application by street-level-bureaucracy. In this sense, the work draws attention to the necessary revision street-level-bureaucracy`s tools and procedures to increase BPC positive discrimination.
Keywords:
Social policydisabled peoplestreet-level-bureaucracyaccessjudicial litigation
Costa, Nilson do Rosário, Abud Marcelino, Miguel Abud Marcelino, Duarte, CMR, Uhr , Deborah Uhr. Social protection and people with disabilities in Brazil.. Cien Saude Colet [periódico na internet] (2016/Jul). [Citado em 22/01/2025].
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