Navigating social security options. ([2019])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Danny Pieters.
• Authors: Pieters, Danny, 1956-
• Contents: Intro; Preface; Contents; Chapter 1 Policy Choices for Income Replacement in the Case of Old Age and Survivorship; Abstract; 1 Old Age, Retirement: What Is the Social Risk?; 2 Universal or Professionally Based? Pillars? Compulsory or Not?; 3 Repartition vs Capitalization; 4 The Statutory Pension Age; 5 The Requirements for a Full Pension; 6 Pensions and the Family Unit; 7 The Pension Amount; 8 Working with a Pension; 9 Acquired Rights, Rights Being Acquired, and the Younger Generations; 10 Why Do We Pay Widow/Widower's Pensions?; 11 Married and Unmarried Couples 12 State Support for Second and Third Pillar ArrangementsBibliography; Chapter 2 Policy Choices Relating to Unemployment Benefit Schemes; Abstract; 1 Introduction; 2 Risk Covered by Unemployment Benefit Schemes; 3 Unemployment Insurance or Unemployment Assistance?; 4 Unemployment Benefits for Whom?; 5 Involuntary Unemployment and Availability for the Labor Market; 6 Suitable Work; 7 Testing Willingness to Work; 8 Unemployment Benefits and Working; 9 Working for Unemployment Benefits; 10 Unemployment and Incapacity for Work; 11 Previous Work Record; 12 Duration of the Benefit 13 Amount of Benefit14 The Changing Nature of Work and Unemployment; 15 Towards a European Unemployment Insurance?; 16 Concluding Reflections; Bibliography; Chapter 3 Policy Choices Relating to Incapacity for Work Schemes; Abstract; 1 What Is the Social Risk to Be Covered?; 2 Why Do We Have Different Schemes for Unemployment and Incapacity for Work?; 3 How Should the Reference Person Be Defined?; 4 A Concrete or Abstract Definition of Incapacity for Work?; 5 A Dual Approach or Not? Invalidity Benefits or Pensions? 6 Evaluating the Degree of Incapacity: Percentages or Classes and Their Evaluation7 Where Does the Continuation of Wage Payment Stop and Social Security Start?; 8 Activation of People Incapacitated for Work, Working While Receiving Benefit, and Re-evaluation of Incapacity; 9 Preventive Incapacity for Work Benefits?; 10 Privileges According to the Cause of Incapacity for Work?; 11 Personal Responsibility for Incapacity for Work; 12 More Than the Loss of Earning Capacity: The Need for Care; Bibliography; Chapter 4 Policy Choices Relating to Social Health Care Schemes; Abstract 1 Territorial Organization of (Social) Health Care2 The Relationship Between Social Health Care and Private Health Care; 3 Limits to the Availability of Health Care; 4 The Universalist Character of Social Health Care; 5 In-Kind or Refund-Based Social Health Care; 6 The Financing of Social Health Care; 7 Co-payment by Patients and Its Limits; 8 The Status and Payment of Health Care Providers; 9 Freedom of Choice Regarding Health Care Provider; 10 Professional Responsibility of the Health Care Provider and the Informed Consent of the Patient
• Publisher Details: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 368.4; Social security; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783030059927; 3030059928
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 06, 2019).
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