Configurações da política de assistência social: uma trajetória de avanços e retrocessos

Abstract

The present research analyzed the directions of the Social Assistance policy in Brazil after the neoliberal restoration resulting from the institutional-parliamentary coup of 2016. It was identified through the bibliographic study and document analysis, that this policy was interrupted in its effectiveness as foreseen in the Policy National Social Assistance. Social Assistance, as provided for in the 1988 Federal Constitution, in turn, is provided as a citizen's right and a duty of the State, breaking with the logic that permeated this policy. With the implementation of the Unified Social Assistance System-SUAS in 2005, there was an opportunity to become effective as a public policy, but this process was interrupted in the governments of Michel Temer and Jair Bolsonaro. Thus, the research analyzed the programs implemented from this period. Through the analysis of the Programa Criança Feliz and Auxílio Brasil, it was possible to identify that the elements that had been overcome by the advance of the legislation of the Social Assistance policy and the implementation of SUAS are resumed. In addition, social assistance services are beginning to have fewer and fewer resources for their implementation, which compromises the quality of services provided and the very functioning of Social Assistance equipment.