A relação dos benefícios previdenciários com o comércio local de pequenos municípios

Abstract

Small Brazilian municipalities with up to five thousand inhabitants represent 22.1% of the total of 5570 municipalities. They have similar realities because they depend on transfers of constitutional funds from the Union to carry out the municipal administration and offer the realization of citizens' rights; for having an economy based on family farming; as well as for presenting retail trade aimed at local consumers. The income of family farmers comes from agricultural production, and in old age there is the integration of retirement by rural age, continuous and permanent, in the amount of one monthly minimum wage plus thirteenth. Thus, the general objective of this research was to analyze the impacts on the local economy in relation to the contributions of benefits from the National Social Security Institute, exclusively to family farmers, in the municipalities of Bom Sucesso do Sul and Sulina, state of Paraná. For that, a bibliographical research on the theme and exploratory field research in the selected places was carried out. For data collection, 126 participants were interviewed, divided into six groups: rural retirees, non-retirees, merchants, presidents of the Rural Workers Union, presidents of the Commercial Association and mayors. Data analysis had a qualitative and quantitative emphasis. The results show that the amounts paid in rural social security benefits by the National Institute of Social Security are more expressive than the main tax transfers to the municipalities, namely the Municipal Participation Fund and the Tax on Circulation of Goods and Services, because they are amounts paid directly to citizens. With this, the beneficiaries move the local commerce, as they purchase food, clothing, medicines, household goods, among others. For merchants, these retirees are steady and continuous consumers. For the municipalities, this revenue reduces the demands for assistance. In view of this, rural pensions generate security, independence, comfort and a happy life for elderly farmers and their families, contributing, in a larger scenario, to the maintenance of the family farmer in the rural area.