The calculation of the death pension benefit in Brazil, analyzed from the perspective of the spouse, partner or companion who performs so-called “invisible work”

Abstract

This article aims to analyze the calculation of the death pension benefit in Brazil, granted by Constitutional Amendment 103/2019, from the perspective of the spouse, partner or partner who performs so-called “invisible work”. The importance of the topic is latent, since people who carry out domestic activities, in the broad sense of family care (social reproduction), do not have economic and social recognition and need special social security protection, as a measure of social justice. As a hypothesis, it is observed that in order to obtain effective social protection in the granting of the death pension benefit to these dependents, it is necessary that the value of the benefit does not suffer reductions brought by EC 103/2019 in the case of the death of its creator. In this context, the methodology used was logical-deductive, based on the bibliographical and legislative analysis procedure, with the aim of providing a general and close view of the importance of full protection of the death pension for dependents as spouse, partner or partner. who carry out invisible work or social reproduction, as will be observed throughout the study. As the main results achieved, there is a need to recognize the importance of developing invisible work carried out by the spouse, partner or partner through social security, with the exception of the method of calculating the death pension owed to these people, in order to grant the benefit in the amount of 100% of the value of the retirement received by the person establishing the death pension or the retirement that would be due to him, if he were retired due to permanent disability.