The study show trat poverty embraces a vast array of factors: social, economic, cultutal, political and others. The research comprehends the profile of families included in the Sole Family Register to benefit the Family Assistance Program. The study encompasses four families that are victims of multiple social exclusion forms in the Rio de Janeiro municipality. Efforts were made to point out poverty and its rights in order to make the mentioned families aware of their social vulnerabilities and their poverty-stricken condition. It also make public their ways to have a political participation as well as their expectations for the future. The conclusion is that poverty does not consist of income insufficiency but it is also due to the social isolation caused by the absence of work, education, and a more effective political participation. To accredit the study it resorted to the ideas of: Hannah Arendt (2001) and some of her commentators, such as: Telles (1990), Lafer (2001), and Duarte (2002) specially the issues concerning citizenship rights under the public standpoint aiming at broadening the discussion on the social assistance policies, pverty and social rights.