O Serviço Social na Previdência Social: desafios e impactos das mudanças normativas no trabalho profissional

Abstract

We have in this study the result of questions that arose from my insertion as a social worker, in 2013, in the socio-occupational space of Social Security, at the National Institute of Social Security (INSS) and the accelerated internal changes in the processes and workflows of workforce management, mostly edited by internal regulations and legislation, and consequently the impact of access to social security for the user population, especially in the period from 2015 to 2022. To seek to understand this process, we privilege the analysis of the Brazilian social formation, allowing us to revisit the period of slavery, going through the period of the First Republic, the transition of the agrarian export axis in the 1930s, its relationship of dependence and the modernizing transition in Brazil, the coup of 1964, the period of redemocratization until the debate of the current moment, in the Bolsonaro government. In this aspect, in a special way, we are drawn to attention, such as the form of political domination in Brazil, in which we can consider the structural axes in the development of this formation that had impacts on the performance of the State, on the formation of the Brazilian political, economic and social construction, according to the discussion of autocratic forms of political domination. We seek to bring the studies on the impacts of the pension reform and seek to evidence, without seeming pretentious, the relations and connections in which each item mentioned has a deep relationship with the development of the current stage of the ultra-right, with fascist aspects, the rates of profits and overexploitation of labor and attack of social rights, including Social Security. In this line of analysis, we also emphasize as fundamental to trace the contributions and reflections on the changes in the world of work and the morphology of the working class, mediated by digital platforms. This debate helps us to deepen reflections on the changes mediated by technologies in the world of work and by public policies. We include here the impacts of these changes on the professional exercise of the social worker in the INSS. Thus, in this effort to construct the theoretical debate, we will seek to carry out bibliographical readings that can offer us subsidies to think about the trends and changes in public policies, situating them in the functions of the State, especially to enable capitalist accumulation in the current stage of development of the productive forces. In this scenario, we also observed the intense changes in relation to the Benefit of Continued Provision, and it is up to us to bring the reflections of the impacts of these changes in the daily life and in the professional exercise of Social Work in the INSS, either by the internal regulations issued within the Executive Power, or even legislation, seeking to evidence the changes and impacts on access to benefits (both social security and assistance, as well as resize the workforce of Social Work, impacting on flows, routines and professional performance. It is also worth mentioning that this study had as methodology documentary analysis, and bibliographic reading and important contribution to the systematization of professional practice, considering the particularities of professional performance in the field of management.