Federal Ministry for Social Security and Generations
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| State level | Federation | ||
| Position of the authority | Supreme federal authority | ||
| founding | 2000 from the Federal Ministry of Labor, Health and Social Affairs | ||
| Dissolved | 2007 Federal Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection | ||
| Headquarters | Vienna 1 , Stubenring | ||
| Authority management | Minister of Social Affairs of the Republic of Austria | ||
By 2000 to 2007 Federal Ministry for Social Security and Generations , shortly BMSG , from 2003 Federal Ministry for Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection , shortly BMSK or social ministry called Austrian manager of the Federation was mainly responsible for social policy, social security, family, youth , Senior, men's and consumer policy.
Federal Minister
The Ministry with the catchphrase "Social Security" was created by the ÖVP / FPÖ Federal Government Schüssel I on October 24, 2000, and replaced the previous Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs of the socialist governments Vranitzky and Klima since 1987 - when the Schüssel took over Government In February 2000 Elisabeth Sickl ( FPÖ ) was still Federal Minister for Labor, Health and Social Affairs (so since 1997). Herbert Haupt (FPÖ, then BZÖ ) followed in October as Federal Minister for Social Security and Generations .
With the formal change of government, Kabinett Schüssel II, in 2003, the Ministry received the consumer protection agendas from the Federal Ministry of Justice ; the health and women's agendas, on the other hand, were outsourced to the Federal Ministry for Health and Women , and from then on it was called the Federal Ministry for Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection.
On January 24, 2005, Ursula Haubner (FPÖ, since May 4, 2005 BZÖ) followed as Federal Minister.
After the Gusenbauer government (SPÖ) took office on January 11, 2007, Erwin Buchinger became Minister of Social Affairs, and on March 1, 2007 the responsibilities of this ministry were divided between the Federal Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection (Social Ministry) and the Federal Ministry for Health, Family and Youth (Health Ministry) .
Competencies
The BMSG was responsible for (as of 2005, Haubner):
- General social policy
- Social security ( pension insurance )
- General and special care matters (maternity and infant care)
- Long-term care as well as disability, care and social assistance matters
- Family policy ; Family Policy Advisory Board; Family counseling funding
- Family burden equalization
- Family policy matters:
- Housing
- public taxes
- Marriage and child law , guardianship , guardianship and trustee law , maintenance advance law and rehabilitation including the right to probation
- Social insurance including unemployment insurance, maternity protection, general and special welfare and assistance for the disabled
- Popular education
- General population policy
- Youth welfare
- extracurricular youth education
- Senior policy
- Consumer policy
- Animal welfare
organization
The BMSG was structured as follows (as of 2005, Haubner):
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Federal Minister
- Internal
- Federal Child and Youth Ombudsman
- State Secretariat for Family, Generations and Consumer Protection
- Office of the State Secretary ( Sigisbert Dolinschek )
- Section I : Support functions IT, EUI
- Section II : Social Security
- Section III : Consumer Protection
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Section IV : Long-term care, disability, care and social assistance matters
- 1 Federal Social Welfare Office
- 9 regional offices
- 1 Federal Social Welfare Office
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Section V : Youth, Family, Men and Senior Citizens Political Affairs
- Technical supervision and instruction law in the area of family burden equalization at the tax offices
Historical development
| Ministry of Social Affairs | Family Ministry | Ministry of Health | Ministry of Women | ||
| 1918-19 | State Office for Social Welfare | ||||
| 1919-20 and 1945 |
State Office for Social Administration | ||||
| 1920-38 1945-87 |
Federal Ministry for Social Administration | ||||
| 1972 | Federal Ministry for Health and Environmental Protection | ||||
| 1983 | Federal Ministry for Family, Youth and Consumer Protection | ||||
| 1987 | Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs |
Federal Ministry for the Environment, Youth and Family 1995 Federal Ministry for Youth and Family |
Matters of health of their own ministers in the Federal Chancellery perceived | until 1991: State Secretariat in the Federal Chancellery | |
| 1991 | Federal Ministry for Health, Sport and Consumer Protection | Federal Ministry for Women's Affairs | |||
| 1996 | Federal Ministry for the Environment, Youth and Family | Federal Ministry for Health and Consumer Protection | - | ||
| 1997 | Federal Ministry for Labor, Health and Social Affairs | The previous Ministry of Health will be dissolved, and most of the agendas will be taken over by the Ministry of Social Affairs. | |||
| 2000 | Federal Ministry for Social Security and Generations | ||||
| 2003 | The previous Federal Ministry for Social Security and Generations receives consumer affairs from the Federal Ministry of Justice and transfers women's affairs to the newly created Federal Ministry for Health and Women . | ||||
| Federal Ministry for Social Security, Generations and Consumer Protection |
 Federal Ministry for Health and Women |
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| 2007 | Federal Ministry for Social Affairs and Consumer Protection |
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