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It analyzes the contemporary configuration of social assistance policy to investigate how the state and the families share responsibility provision to basic needs of individuals and to combat deprivation and social risks. Through genealogical method, a documentary analysis of the laws was made, decrees and other regulations of social assistance policy to develop subsidies for discussion. It argues that assistance lifted to the status of social security policy from 1988 through the structuring of a familist circuit complex, whose responsibilities to combat deprivation, vulnerability and social risks of the citizens are shared between the state and families, or are still transferred legally to families or fully assumed by them when there is state failure. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The aim of this article is to analyze the impact of well-being provoked in the life of the disabled people after the Cash Benefit to Disabled People (BPC). The BPC is a social assistance benefit consisting in an unconditional and monthly transference of the equivalent of a minimum wage, to poor people with deficiency and elders with more than 65 years. The methodology used was a case study with qualitative and quantitative techniques of data collection and analysis. BPC performed interviews guided by a semi-structuralized questionnaire with 30 people with deficiency. The results showed that: (1) BPC is an important mechanism of security of income in the consumption of basic goods of feeding, health treatments and expenses with housing of deficient and its families; (2) disabled people had related the concession of the benefit to the increase of social and financial independence in relation to their families, contributing to expand the idea of autonomy and citizenship; (3) it is an instrument capable of protecting the benefited ones and their families of the situation of social vulnerability result of the poverty, although the mothers of the deficient children leave the work market to take care of their children and do not receive any kind of social protection from the State.