HISTÓRIA COMPARADA DOS MODELOS DE PREVIDÊNCIA SOCIAL: Brasil e Argentina

Abstract

This paper analyzes the social security systems adopted by Brazil and Argentina, highlighting the common and differing aspects in different historic periods as well as their social repercussions. It highlights that the social security programs are, together with social assistance and healthcare, the most important forms of protection against social risks. As State policy, social security cannot be examined separately from their political and economic contexts, and although they are designed to assure indispensable means for sustenance for beneficiaries who are physically incapacitated, elderly, retired, unemployed, have family responsibilities, are jailed, or require assistance because of the death of the person on whom they were economically dependent, the policies suffer the impacts of neoliberal policies that are in ascension in Brazil and Argentina. In this light, we can highlight that the history of social security is marked by the contradictions of the capitalist system