Ministério do
Desenvolvimento Social e
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Integrated Management of Services,
Benefits and Income Transfers in the
Unique System of Social Assistance
(SUAS)
October 2010
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Desenvolvimento Social e
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Federal Constitution
Social Security
Pension
Contributory
Health
Social
Assistance
Non-contributory
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Background
1988 – Federal Constitution
Social Security
PNAS –
National Policy
of Social
Assistance
SocialSaúde
Assistance
1993
LOAS – Organic
Law of Social
Assistance
2004
Creation
of
MDS
2005
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• Social assistance is a citizenship right and an obligation
of the State;
• Family driven;
• Decentralized and participative management; Social
control;
• Adhesion of 5.525 municipalities (99,3%), 26 states
(100%) and the Federal District;
• Management is organized considering the size of
municipalities, geographic regions, territory (at local
level) and complexity of services.
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Basic Social Protection
Low complexity: prevention of social
vulnerability and strengthening of family and
community ties
Services are offered in
Reference Centers of Social
Assistance (CRAS) – public
equipments located at
vulnerable territories.
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Basic Social Protection Services
Social
Assistance
PAIF – Service
of integral
attention and
protection to the
family
Basic Social
Protection
Convivence and
Ties Strengthening
Home Support
to the Aged
and Disabled
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Special Social Protection
Medium and high complexity: focus on families and
individuals that suffered the violation of rights and/or the
rupture of family and community ties.
Actions are mainly hold by Reference Specialized
Centers of Social Assistance (CREAS) – public
equipments located at social risk areas.
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Special Social Protection Services
Social Assistance
Special Social Protection
Medium complexity
High Complexity
Individuals
and Families
Social Approach
People
living on
the street
Sheltering
Adolescents
in Conflict
with the Law
Aged and
Disabled
people and
their families
Sheltering
Family
Protection on
Calamities and
Emergencies
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Social Assistance Benefits
• Continuous Cash Benefit Programme (BPC)
• Constitutional right;
• No conditionalities;
• Grants 1 minimum wage to disabled or aged (65+) people,
who are unable to work and whose per capita family income is
inferior to ¼ of the minimum wage (~U$286)
• 1.722.093 disabled beneficiaries and 1.593.678 aged people
• Eventual benefits (birth, death, calamity, temporary vulnerability)
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Cash Transfer
• Bolsa Família Programme
• Conditioned cash transfer
• 12.769.155 families
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Protocol of Integrated Management of
Services, Social Assistance Benefits and
Income Transfers
• Published in 2009
• Links income security, the right to family and community convivence
and the development of autonomy, as foreseen in the National Policy
of Social Assistance
• Sets responsibilities for the federative bodies, norms on flows
(inside and outside the system) and information management and
procedures for family attendance
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Protocol of Integrated Management of
Services, Social Assistance Benefits and
Income Transfers
CREAS/ Special
Social Protection
CRAS/ Basic
Social Protection
Bolsa Família
BPC
Benefitiary families
under social
vulnerability
Benefitiary families
under social
risk
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Protocol of Integrated Management of
Services, Social Assistance Benefits and
Income Transfers
MDS
Data and indicators
production and
improvement of the
information flow
States
Municipalities
CRAS/CREAS
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Protocol of Integrated Management of
Services, Social Assistance Benefits and
Income Transfers
Before the protocol...
After the protocol...
The focus of the protocol is not the income transfer nor the benefit nor the service,
but the consolidation of a social protection net for families in their territories.
Ministério do
Desenvolvimento Social e
Combate à fome
Thank you!
Leonardo Prudente
[email protected]
www.mds.gov.br