As políticas de transferência de renda no Brasil: discutindo o Programa Bolsa Família

Abstract

This Final Work for the Undergratuation has as the general objective to understand how the social policies of facing poverty can be understood in the present context. In this sense, the Bolsa Família (Family Allowance) Program (BFP)'s study was opted. It was created in 2003, is constituted as an income transfer policy and aims to combat poverty and extreme poverty. Currently, Bolsa Família is configured with one of the most expressive programs under social assistance. The awakening to the issue took place from supervised traineeship, conducted by the Social Assistance Reference Center (CRAS) in the eastern region of Santa Maria, in 2014, where the vast majority of the user population of this service was beneficiary of the Program. This work is a literature search, which prioritizes the qualitative approach and it is based on historical dialectical materialism. Thus, it was found that the Bolsa Família Program is a step forward from the point of view of other income transfer policies implemented in the 90s, which were expressed in a fragmented way. However, the BFP has in its genesis the influence of neo-liberal perspective that even lifting millions of Brazilians out of extreme poverty, strengthens the conditionalities required to the families and the welfare dimension, focused and selective of social assistance policies. So, it is up to the Social Service a critical and purposeful reflection front of the conditional cash transfer programs, in order to it doesn't become a mere technical agent executor of social policies, but act in ways to ensure political ethical commitment of the profession, expressed in its Code of Ethics, with the working class.