House allowance (penal system)

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In German penal law, house money refers to the amount of money that the prisoner may use for shopping or otherwise.

According to Section 47 (1) of the Prison Act , the prisoner has three-seventh of the remuneration regulated in the Prison Act and the pocket money standardized in Section 46 of the StVollzG as house money. Section 47 (2) StVollzG provides that for prisoners who are in a freelance employment relationship or those who are permitted to employ themselves under Section 39 (2) of the StVollzG, adequate house money is formed from their earnings.

The house money can be saved; In the correctional facility , a house money account must therefore be kept for every prisoner, from which the total house money available to the prisoner must be derived.

Amounts that accrue to the prisoner without being included in the house money are either to be added to the bridging allowance or to the prisoner's own money .

The question of the extent to which house money can be seized is controversial; its practical significance, however, is low because the immunity from seizure of either the special purpose ( § 851 ZPO , § 399 BGB ) or from the seizure exemption limit to § 850c gives ZPO, while the allowance to § 46 of the Prison Act is exempt from attachment anyway.