Benefício de prestação continuada temporário para crianças acometidas pela síndrome congênita do Zika vírus: uma análise crítica sobre seu potencial de ampliação da proteção social

Abstract

This article presents a critical analysis of the Temporary Benefit for Children with Zika virus Congenital Syndrome, seeking to understand its potential to extend social protection to this vulnerable group. After exhaustive bibliographical and documentary research, from a critical dialectic perspective, we analyze the Continuous Benefit (BPC) as a public social welfare policy; we discuss the characteristics of the benefit established by Law 13,301/16, compared to the general rule for granting BPC to persons with disabilities; and finally, we analyze whether the Temporary Benefit can increase social protection for children with this syndrome. We conclude that this public policy does not have the potential extend the social protection to children affected by the Zika virus, establishing a real restriction of the social welfare system that already exists in Brazil, and violating the principle of the prohibition of social regression