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To: Haim R. Branisteanu who wrote (80618)	9/30/2011 3:07:52 PM
From: elmatador	1 Recommendation Respond to of 217789

See Hartz IV Message 27003848 iv Hartz I put short-time workers on equal footing with permanent employees, and aimed to make temporary employment more attractive and socially acceptable. Hartz II redefined regulations on unemployment benefits, particularly on how much someone could earn and still receive benefits. It also anglicized the unemployment benefit offices - calling them "Job Centers" and creating the term "Minijob" for part-time employment. Hartz III restructured the entire bureaucracy of the unemployment benefit system, and renamed the Federal Labor Office the Federal Labor Agency - putting the emphasis on the its function as an agency for the unemployed to find work. Hartz IV was the final and most radical of these laws. It bound together all social welfare allowances - from day-to-day requirements, to school books to clothing, all of which had to be applied for separately - into one flat sum, and named it "Unemployment Benefit II." This became the allowance an unemployed person receives after their official "Unemployment Benefit I," an allowance based on their previous income, ran out after a certain period. Hartz IV centralized both these benefits through the Bundesagentur fuer Arbeit (Federal Labor Office), rather than separate regional offices. Its intention was to prioritize getting people back to work, in whatever form: temporary, part-time or full-time. Hartz IV also limited the period of time that the regular "Unemployment Benefit I" would be paid to 18 months, putting more pressure on the unemployed to find work. In 2007, the coalition government of CDU and SPD softened this slightly, raising the time limit to 24 months for people over 58.