Lei orgânica da assistência social: questões relevantes sobre o benefício de prestação continuada

Abstract

This monograph has as main focus the relevant aspects of the care benefit. It analyses the social assistance organization, its history, its law and policy, especially in relation to the care benefit requisitions, noticing, as well, the evolution of the law and the judgments about it, confronting them with the constitutional principles and today's social realities. Strictly speaking, it evaluates the extent of the disability meaning and questions about the possibility of the misery standard relativization. The study takes place on the basis of bibliographic research, laws, jurisprudence and scientific articles founded on websites. We conclude that the care benefit should be provided to elder people and to people with disabilities, since they prove being unable to sustain themselves or to be sustained by their family.