Política de assistência social e a implantação do Programa Criança Alagoana

Abstract

With the Federal Constitution of 1988, social assistance became a public social security policyand focused income transfer programs became a way for the State to combat unemployment, poverty and an alternative to boost the economy. In the State of Alagoas, the Child Alagoana Program began offering a benefit of R$150 to families in situations of poverty and social vulnerability during the covid-19 pandemic. The monograph ‘Social assistance policy and the implementation of the Child Alagoana Program’ sought to understand the trajectory of social assistance in the global context and in Brazil and its development, to learn about the trajectoryof income transfer programs in Brazil and to understand the Child Alagoana Program and socialassistance promoted by the income transfer action. Bibliographic and documentary research was used as a methodology, with data collection through books, articles, website news, laws, ordinances, decrees and booklets. It was observed that the implementation of the Alagoana Child Program represents an instrument in combating hunger and a means of ensuring the healthy development of pregnant women and children up to six years old in situations of social vulnerability, especially when disregarding the income obtained by the Bolsa Família Programand the Benefit of Continuous Payment.