Assistance Benefits in Brazil

1. An Introduction to Brazil’s Social Security System
Marco Aurélio Serau Junior, José Ricardo Caetano Costa

Part I. General Theory

2. The Social Limbo Protection Between Support and Security
Fabio Luiz Passos

3. A Contribution to the Study of Social Assistance to the Persons with Deficiency: Labor and Efficiency in the Capitalist Mode of Production
Flávio Roberto Batista

4. Public Policies, Judicial Activism, and Social Assistance
Miguel Horvath

5. Social Welfare and Continuous Benefit Payments: A Reality To Be Perfected
Theodoro Vicente Agostinho, Sérgio Henrique Salvador

6. Social Assistance: Analysis of the Fundamental Right Based on the 20-Year Experience of Law 8.472/93
Wagner Balera

Part II. Requirements for Granting the Benefit

7. Administrative Process for the Purpose of the Concession of Welfare Benefits
Alexandre Schumacher Triches

8. The Right to Have Rights: Social Assistance Rights from a Judicial Activism Perspective
Ana Maria Correa Isquierdo, José Ricardo Caetano Costa

9. Specifics of Claim Preclusion in Lawsuits Involving Welfare Benefits
Bruno Takahashi, Karina Carla Lopes Garcia

10. Effectiveness of the Social Protection Benefit to Fight Extreme Poverty Under Brazilian Rule of Law
José Carlos Francisco

11. Biopsicossocial Expert Evidence: A Good Example from the Social Assistance Law
José Ricardo Caetano Costa, Marco Aurelio Serau Junior

12. The Continued Payment Benefit in Comparison with Social Security Benefits
Silvio Marques Garcia

13. Immigrants’ Right to Continued Benefit Payments: A Citizenship Question
Camila Bibiana Freitas Baraldi, Táli Pires Almeida, Tatiana Chang Waldman

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