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The term pursuit support is a disputed word creation of critics of a new guideline of the federal agency for work, which became to issue iv-laws in the connection of the Hartz. They criticize with the fact that the support accompanies control of their authorization for social security benefits, intensified by unemployed persons with the goal of its integration into the job market since 2003 with. The term is to make attentive on possible authority arbitrariness with the goal of the intimidation of unemployed persons and statistic reduction of the recipients of services.
Work mediators of the labour office Bochum used 2003 for the first time the term pursuit support, in order to describe one "aggravation of "their tasks, for which they made a default of the federal labour office responsible. Thus "the business-political goals "of the federal agency for work were meant of 2003, in which the goal was formulated, the number of that, which to injustice or in unjustified height of social security benefits refer, by intensified control of being present the conditions for achievement to reduce, so that the institutional budget without subsidies gets along. This target was taken over by many employment administrations of local agencies for work.
"The measure 11 "the Bochumer Argentur for work concerned "the mechanism of roulierender training measures for occupation return gutters ". The goal a better "switching was official in work ". It is maintained that one calculated with a portion of the women with children, which would not enter into a training measure. Thereby arise allegedly a reduction of the number of the women in the achievement purchase, for switching the available, around approximately 300, the financial saving goal to that extent with - based on the total budget infinitesimal small - the amount by 380.000 euro one set. One "measure 3 "stopped the specialists in addition, with the decision over curfews not after the principle "in dubio per reo "for proceeding in the doubt for the accused - thus less generous -. Coworkers of the labour office Bochum protested here also against the formulation of the principle, which is used legally only in the criminal law.
In press releases of the trade union ver.di it meant in addition: "The pursuit support threatens the unemployed person ". Concretely meant that, each possible and impossible opportunity for the imposition of a curfew is used. The pressure on the unemployed persons does not make also before the colleagues and colleagues in the offices stop. Hit lists are furnished to look with the goal, who in which time like many curfews imposes.
The Gewerkschafterin Dorothee Fetzer sees a strategy of disciplining and the Ausgrenzung (Dorothee Fetzer) as Gegnerin of welfare cutses in the pursuit support designated in such a way of it. Under this criticism also the guideline of "promoting and demanding stands "from the SGB II, there it around "the dismantling of achievement rights, resulted from Hartz IV reform, in particular from calculable, in-complainable requirements for payment in cash to the existence safety device "(Helga Spindler) goes here. The SGB II plans here the conclusion of an integration agreement, which can be rejected only under special conditions by the unemployed person.
Helga Spindler, Professorin for public right of the University of Duisburg meal, determines here one "restrictive paradigm change in the social politics ", with which "an activating state "is demanded. With the program "promoting and demanding "would come Case management concepts for the validity, which were already far more by the Bertelsmann donation "certain "today than "from the text books the social work "mediated. Here the consultation is, by the citizen with "need to be requested can and by its use convinced no more offer of help, but it starting from the first day to the obligation, connected with sanction threats ". Beyond that she criticizes "the involuntary, occasionally down-appreciating and discouraging procedures "for the concerning.
As purposeful pursuit care measures the defaults of the Federal Minister for Economic Affairs at that time Wolfgang Clement from 3 June 2005 are considered. Therein he formulated "immediate measures for avoidance and/or uncovering of achievement abuse ". To them control "of the actual availability belongs "; a support with the goal, "achievement abuse to advance toward of being able ", for example by the mechanism of test and field services and of high-speed switching centers.
"Polarize-mixes in particular objective of the term is criticized ", which already contains in its name the devaluation of the reform measure. The measures as a check, so critics of the term, is a substantial task of the legislation and the agencies for work. To the modernization of the social systems also one belongs "to containment "(to the extent however unclear) of the achievement abuse. On the income side of the state citizens are exposed to substantially stronger control and monitoring than on the output page. This necessary adjustment, thus critics, is diffamiert by the polarize-mixed term "of the pursuit support ".
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