2010 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
Housing Benefit in Germany and its suggestion for Japan
| Project/Area Number |
20730041
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Social law
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| Research Institution | Sapporo Gakuin University |
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Principal Investigator |
SHIMADA Yoshihiro Sapporo Gakuin University, 法学部, 准教授 (40405634)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2008 – 2010
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| Keywords | 住宅手当 / 住宅扶助 / 生活保護 / 住宅政策 / ドイツ |
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| Research Abstract |
Germany's housing benefit (Wohngeld), as a part of social security system, is a public benefit in order to reduce the rent burden of low-incomes. It also targets homeowners with low-income. Benefits costs are halved between the state and federal ; the benefits borne by tax is so generally subjected to frequent reforms that we have very difficult to prospect the systems. In fact, the public assistance reform in 2005 (Hartz IV) has abolished the benefit for the social assistance receivers. The overall volume was also reduced. For low-incomes, however, this befit without stigma lights a rent burden for border-line people. It has also given us the suggestions.
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Research Products
(7 results)
