Abstract The personal budget for persons in need of care is tested currently as large-scale model project. As a hybrid between the benefit in cash and in kind the acceptance as a standard benefit is considered in the discussion about reforming of nursing care insurance. Especially a priority...

Zusammenfassung: Aufbauend auf der Idee des kompensierten Golddollars von Irving Fisher (1913) handelt der Beitrag von einer kapitalfundierten Euro-Gemeinschaftswährung mit Kaufkraftgarantie, dem kapitalfundierten Hart-Euro (KHE). Das Konzept beinhaltet zunächst die Funktionsweise und die...

Summary The European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF), which is supported by the German Gesetz zur Übernahme von Gewährleistungen im Rahmen des europäischen Stabilisierungsmechanismus (StabMechG), suspends the Stability and Growth Pact as the basis of the European Economic and Monetary...

Summary In October 2004, in Germany a pre-operating study was started in order to prove the feasibility and consequences of the use of personal budgets by persons who are in need of nursing care. About 1.000 care dependent persons living in seven regions are included in this triannual study. For...

Summary The article shows the different forms of the legal relation in the welfare state in a three level system. The system change in the social economy from a corporate system to a competitive system occurs centrally by two instruments: First by personalized budgets respectively cash value...

Summary The financial and guarantee aids within the European Financial Stabilisation Mechanism suspend the Stability and Growth Pact as the basis of the European Economic and Monetary Union. The actual ‘suspension’ from the ‘no bail-out’ restriction (Art. 125 TFEU) and the prohibition of...