Assistance Benefits in Brazil

Presentation.-Preface.-Introduction.-Part I: General Theory.-The limbo of social protection: between assistance and security.-A contribution to the study of social security for the disabled: work and efficiency under the capitalist way of production.-The influence of economic over legal argument on the implementation of right to social assistance.-Public policies, legal activism and social assistance.-Social assistance and long-term benefits: a reality to be improved.-The importance of social assistance in Constitution as social instrument.-Part II: Requirements for granting and procedural aspects.-Administrative procedures for granting of assistance benefits.-The right to have rights: social assistance rights that rise from legal activism.-Particularities of the res judicata in granting of assistance benefits.-Social justice and maintenance of assistance benefits as predicted in the Act 8.742/93 in case of death of the beneficiary.-Biopsychosocial investigation: the good example that comes from the Organic Law of Social Assistance.-Assistance Benefits and Security Benefits: differences and similarities.-The right of immigrants to long-term benefits: a matter of citizenship.-Part III: Funding aspects of Social Assistance. Social Assistance: a brief study on the basic and special social protection expenses in the cities of São Paulo and Belém.-Part IV: Criminal aspects.-Social assistance and the crime of administrative advocacy: a necessary interpretation.