The need for standardization of the social vulnerability verification criterion in brazilian social assistance: a challenge for citizenship materialization
Abstract
Brazilian social assistance is part of the social security structure, forming the tripod: assistance, health and welfare, comprising an integrated set of actions of the Public Power to provide social protection to citizens. Faced with the challenges of post-modern society to ensure people the indispensable resources for the maintenance of a decent standard of living (subsistence - vital minimum), social assistance suffers from the problem of observing a criterion of verification of social vulnerability different from several other public policies aimed at the poorest quintiles in the country. The research problem is limited to determining whether this configuration, without the existence of a targeting index or a single equivalent economic indicator, the main benefit of the welfare system in Brazil is destined to the analysis of vulnerability by a subjective criterion, distancing the most vulnerable sector of the population from the main benefit that could rescue dignity and comply with the constitutional objectives of the Brazilian Charter of 1988, namely, to build a free, fair and solidary society; guaranteeing national development; eradicating poverty and marginalization and reducing social and regional inequalities; and promoting the good of all, without prejudice of origin, race, sex, color, age or any other form of discrimination. The hypothesis is that the absence of an objective and uniform criterion for determining social vulnerability as a way of guaranteeing social protection of the poorest through social assistance of modern citizenship generates its distancing from these subjective public rights in jurisdictional practice. The main results point out that the jurisdictional practice adopts subjective criteria not configured in law and that the absence of a single criterion for the verification of the social vulnerability of citizens can generate distortions in the materialization of public assistance policies.
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