The effectiveness of the neoliberal policy, which began in Latin America from the 1990s, makes
States sacrifice the well-being of the population in favor of the market, cruelly impacting the
working class. The present was developed with a theoretical-methodological focus on historical
and dialectical materialism. As for the type of research, it is constituted as a qualitative
descriptive and was carried out through bibliographical and documentary review. Its general
objective is: To investigate the effects of the social security counter-reform movement, from
the Temer government, on the work of social workers from the INSS social service. It intends
to present elements necessary for the analysis of the counter-reforms of the State and Social
Security within the context of the capital crisis that began in the 1970s. We present elements of
the structural crisis of capital and the ways that capital uses to stand out from these crises, for
example the use of the public fund and how this mechanism directly interferes in social policies,
specifically in the Social Security policy that has been the target of counter-reforms and
considered as one of the main responsible for the budget breakdown, mainly since the 1990s,
with the advancement of the neoliberal platform and its “modernization policy” that excelled
in reducing the State and encouraging market laws, materializing a program that restricted
rights and re-established capital gains. It also points to the reduction of financial support for
social policies to the detriment of the considerable portion destined to the payment of public
debt in parallel to a cruel counter-reform and the destruction of the Brazilian Social Security
System. We cover neoliberal governments and their counter-reforms; we specifically discussed
the particularities of counter-reform in the social security policy of the Temer government.
Within this scenario, we present some elements necessary for the analysis of the
transformations in the world of work with reference to the changes implemented in access to
benefits at the National Social Security Institute (INSS), also highlighting the incidences of
counter-reforms on the professional performance of the Social Service of the INSS. The Social
Security Social Service has suffered and has been the target of several attacks aimed at its
extinction, given that in the current service model, it is a single in-person access channel that
citizens have in search of social security rights. As the counter-reform of Social Security is
consolidated in the 1990s and 2000s, there is a profound change in its administrative structure
and significant changes in services, plans and criteria for accessing benefits both in the General
Regime and in the Self, and with that , reduces the possibilities of access to the rights
historically won by the working class. Thus, in this field of contradictory interests, social
workers need to be attentive to the direction of their actions, so that they do not lose their harmony with the ethical-political project of the category, and seek the construction of a public,
universal social security policy. The study becomes relevant in view of the urgent need to
maintain a public social security system and the conquered social rights, affirming the
category's ethical-political commitment to the defense of the working class.
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