DINIZ, J. C. B.; http://lattes.cnpq.br/9359302606012149; DINIZ, Jourdávilla Costa Benício.
Résumé:
This study aims to treat about the Bolsa Família (“Family Grant Program”). Program as
a deceleration factor of the consequences of historical evil distribution of income in
Brazil, analyzing it in its several perspectives and measuring its impact on the lives of
beneficiaries. The program's goal is fighting hunger and it works through the monthly
payment of an amount to families enrolled in the Unified Register and that are situated
on the line of poverty and extreme poverty. These families are responsible for the
fulfilling the conditionalities, as consideration for the support given, must keep their
children with regular school attendance, their elderly and pregnant with monitoring by
the health system and their adults attending vocational courses. In the long term, the aim
of the PBF is to promote the sustainable empowerment of beneficiaries, causing no
longer need the benefit because they can, by themselves, keep up worthily. While the
socioeconomic indices demonstrate the positive impact of the Bolsa Família, having
been noted the reduction of number of poor and extremely poor country, still persist
harsh criticism around this kind of public policy, being ordered to fine line between its
nature and welfarism, by the influence it can have in the electoral disputes. Despite
discussions, we see the need to think about the revitalization of social services public
structures, allied to the publics policies of direct income transfer as the PBF, and other
policies that promote social rights, can lead Brazil to reach an effectiveness satisfactory
level to the legal devices of defence of fundamental rights hitherto proclaimed and
legally recognized.
