Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/249221 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para Discussão No. 2703
Publisher: 
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília
Abstract (Translated): 
This study investigates recent changes in the Benefício de Prestação Continuada (BPC) policy and discusses its advances and limitations in guaranteeing and promoting rights. In addition to briefly analyzing the trajectory of changes in the BPC eligibility criteria between 1996 and 2016, the work focuses on initiatives to modernize the management of BPC, such as mandatory registration in CadÚnico, INSS Digital implantation, and new procedures for revising and updating beneficiary registration. The study also discusses the changes resulting from Law no 13.982/2020, approved by the National Congress at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, as well as new administrative and regulatory measures presented by the Executive Power in the context of the pandemic public policy response. Finally, the authors point to the need for a balance between strategies for policy improving, increasing state efficiency and guaranteeing the BPC's primary function of offering protection to a population in a situation of great vulnerability.
Subjects: 
social assistance policies
Benefício de Prestação Continuada
social protection systems
JEL: 
I38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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