Continued Payment Benefit: Perspectives on the Medical-Social Evaluations

Authors

  • Alano Carmo Macêdo Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
  • Lucia Conde Oliveira Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE)

Abstract

This article reflects on the social and medical evaluation of people with disabilities for access to the Continued Payment Benefit under Brazil’s Organic Social Assistance law. The qualitative approach of the study allowed an analysis of changes in the reality, based on the work process of social assistants and examining doctors from the National Social Security Institute (INSS). Interviews were conducted with the professionals from the Social Security agency from Fortaleza, Ceara State. The interlocutors revealed an
absence of uniformity in the modus operandi of the evaluation process, which leads to a lack of uniformity in understanding the form of evaluating a person with a disability who requests the Benefit.

Author Biographies

Alano Carmo Macêdo, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)

Doutorando em Serviço Social pela Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC)
Assistente Social do Instituto Nacional do Seguro Social (INSS)

Lucia Conde Oliveira, Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE)

Pós-Doutorado em Saúde Coletiva pela Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)
Doutorado em Saúde Coletiva pela Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ)
Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Saúde Coletiva e do Mestrado Acadêmico em Serviço Social
na Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE)

Published

2015-11-20