Unemployment Insurance
Who is insured?
Unemployment insurance is a compulsory form of insurance. All persons who have a paid job above the insignificance limit are insured. This goes for blue-collar as well as white-collar workers and also includes trainees. Special groups of people, e.g. civil servants, soldiers or those who reached their regular retirement age are exempt from paying unemployment insurance contributions.
Overview of compulsory unemployment insurance and exemptions >>
The spectrum of benefits provided by unemployment insurance
The Federal Employment Office, represented locally by regional employment offices, provides a wide range of benefits within the scope of unemployment insurance.
Overview of unemployment insurance benefits >>
How are the expenditures of the Federal Employment Office financed?
Financing comes primarily from the contributions paid by employees, employers and third parties. These are supplemented by allocations, federal funds and other income.
Overview of unemployment insurance financing >>
Unemployment insurance as a mirror of the times
The eventful history of unemployment insurance began in 1927 with the Job Placement and Unemployment Insurance Act. In subsequent years, the world economic crisis, mass unemployment and the temporary caesura in self-government and free career choice during National Socialism proceeded to put the fundamental democratic principles on which unemployment insurance was based to the test.
Overview of the history of unemployment insurance >>
