Assistance benefits and the income criterion

a study about the necessity for flexibilization of legals exigency for concession

Abstract

The high population contingent, which does not guarantee or is guaranteed its own subsistence, would be one of the factors for the emergence of assistance policies and benefits, not being possible to make them available to all applicants. Criteria were developed, aiming at granting only those who are in poverty. However, these are strict, restricting the majority to achieving the granting of said benefit, even if they are factually entitled to it. This article proposes to analyze, using a qualitative approach and bibliographical survey: social security, assistance benefits, criteria and flexibility, based on legislative and doctrinal analyses.