Entre o direito e a exclusão: os desafios do acesso ao Benefício de Prestação Continuada pelas pessoas em situação de rua

Abstract

The Benefit of Continuous Provision is the only benefit of an assistance nature that expressly guarantees the transfer of a minimum wage to people in a situation of extreme socioeconomic vulnerability. However, the National Survey on the Homeless Population, carried out in 2008, found that 88.5% of respondents were not beneficiaries of income transfer assistance programs and that only 1.3% received the BPC. For this reason, the present work studies the right to social assistance in Brazil, focusing on the BPC and the trajectory of public policies aimed at the Homeless Population. Thus, when analyzing the challenges of access to the benefit by the PSR, it was concluded that the set of bureaucratic and procedural practices by the State implies the violation of fundamental rights and guarantees. Finally, a set of initiatives aimed at greater regulatory effectiveness and the implementation of access to justice for this part of the population was presented.