“…Moreover, contemporary approaches highlight that it is a thin simplification reducing Social Security to a mere system of institutions: rather, it is first and foremost, a human right that is to be implemented via a system of institutions and policies which work as tools for such a human right (ILO, 2001;ILO, 2011;ISSA, 2013;ABRAMOVICH;COURTIS, 2011;HEREDERO 2007;LANGFORD, 2009). Conversely, and in spite the fact that in Brazil there is a vast legal literature upon social security and fundamental rights (SAVARIS, 2011;SARLET, 2012;FLEURY 2005;FLEURY,1994;IPEA 2008), it is quite rare to see acknowledgments of social security itself as a fundamental human right. Rather, the opposite is more likely to be the case, once the most part of brazilian scholars (CASTRO;LAZZARI 2015, p.27-28), politicians, even the Courts, tend to see social security as a system of institutions charged with the implementation of health, social assistance and social insurance policies.…”