SOCIAL SECURITY LITIGATION: THE PROFILE OF INSURED AND DEMANDS FOR DISABILITY

Abstract

Disability benefits are a more frequent issue in the Federal Courts and the high costs of these lawsuits threaten its maintenance in the Social Security, with the possibility of the risk being transferred to private insurance. Addressing these demands by identifying the causes of filing, in addition to mitigating litigation, can ensure them in the general regime. The objective of the paper is, thus, to outline the insured, the causes of administrative refusals and the disabling diseases, the processes related, notably, the processing time, the importance of the expertise, the agreement of the sentence with the expertise and from this with the administrative decision, the percentage of confirmation of the administrative request. To this end, an inductive scientific method was used, through an observational investigation technique through a descriptive, cross-sectional and retrospective study on the processes of the judicial subject sickness benefit and disability retirement between 2015 and 2019 in cities that represent the 5 regions of the Federal Special Courts, chosen from among interior and capital courts, specialized or not. From the results, the situations that rose demands of this order were discussed, under the prism of diseases and the process itself, concluding that there are ways to contain the massification of demands for misfortunes that affect working capacity.

Keywords  Small Claims Courts; Social Security Law; medical expertise; disability working capacity; free justice; processing time