Social Minimum and Equality: Deficiency and LOAS Assistance Benefits

Authors

  • Janaína Lima Penalva da Silva UnB - Brasília - DF
  • Debora Diniz UnB - Brasília - DF

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1590/S1414-49802012000200012

Abstract

This article develops the idea that the Organic Law for Social Assistance (LOAS) institutes the social minimum and establishes a survival level as the standard for providing social assistance. The definitions established by LOAS are unconstitutional, because the Brazilian Constitution determines that social assistance will be provided to whoever needs it. To defend this thesis, the article is organized in two parts. The first analyzes the concept of deficiency that the International Convention about the Rights of People with Disabilities incorporated to the Federal Constitution, and its impact on the LOAS in the determination of benefits to be provided to the disabled, according to the understanding imposed by the social minimums.

Author Biographies

Janaína Lima Penalva da Silva, UnB - Brasília - DF

Doutora em Direito pela UnB. Professora Adjunta da Faculdade de Direito da UnB. Pesquisadora da Anis: Instituto de Bioética, Direitos Humanos e Gênero.

Debora Diniz, UnB - Brasília - DF

Doutora em Antropologia pela UnB. Professora do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Política
Social da UnB. Pesquisadora da Anis: Instituto de Bioética, Direitos Humanos e Gênero.

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Published

2012-12-10

Issue

Vol. 15 No. 2 (2012): Formação e exercício profissional em Serviço Social

Section

Open-themed space

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