Service provider (social law)
As a service provider is called the Social Law authorities or legal persons of public law , the benefits under the social security or other benefits provide.
General
Authority within the meaning of § 1 para. 2 SGB X each site that is tasks of the public administration is responsible. Corporations or institutions can be considered as legal persons under public law . The authorities include, for example, the social welfare offices , the corporations the health insurance funds , and the institutions the Federal Labor Office . According to Section 13 of the Book I of the Social Code, all of them have a duty to inform the citizens who have a legal right to advice under Section 14 of the Book I of the Social Code , whereby the service providers must fulfill their duty to provide information ( Section 15 of the Book I of the Social Code). The term service provider is a legal term that is defined in § 12 SGB I.
Jurisdiction
The responsibility of the various service providers is finally regulated in Section 12 SGB I according to subject areas :
- Training subsidies ( Section 18, Paragraph 2 of Book I of the Social Code): The state offices are responsible for training subsidies .
- Employment promotion ( Section 19 (2) SGB I): the employment agencies .
- Basic security for job seekers ( Section 20 (2) SGB I): the employment agencies.
- Statutory health insurance ( Section 21 (2) SGB I): the local , company and guild health insurance funds , the social insurance for agriculture, forestry and horticulture as an agricultural health insurance fund, the German pension insurance Knappschaft-Bahn-See and the substitute funds .
- Long-term care ( § 21a para 2 SGB. I): the built in the health insurance care funds .
- Termination of pregnancy ( Section 21b (2) SGB I): the local, company and guild health insurance funds, the social insurance for agriculture, forestry and horticulture as an agricultural health insurance company, the German pension insurance Knappschaft-Bahn-See and the substitute funds.
- Statutory accident insurance ( Section 22 (2) SGB I): the commercial trade associations , the social insurance for agriculture, forestry and horticulture as an agricultural trade association, the municipal accident insurance associations , the fire department accident insurance funds , the accident insurance funds of the federal states and municipalities, the joint accident insurance funds for the state and the municipal area and the federal and railway accident insurance .
- Statutory pension insurance ( Section 23 (2) SGB I): the German Federal Pension Insurance , the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See and the social insurance for agriculture, forestry and horticulture .
- Damage to health ( Section 24 (2) SGB I): the pension offices .
- Child allowance , child allowance , benefits for education and participation , parental allowance and care allowance ( Section 25 (2) SGB I): the Federal Employment Agency .
- Housing benefit ( Section 26 (2) SGB I): Housing benefit authorities.
- Child and youth welfare ( Section 27 (2) SGB I): the cities and municipalities.
- Social assistance ( Section 28 (2) SGB I): the social welfare offices .
The tasks of the responsible service providers are regulated in Paragraph 1 of the aforementioned source of law, for example grants and loans for livelihood and training can be used for training grants ( Section 18 Paragraph 1 SGB I).
Social security agencies
The social insurance carriers are service providers who provide social security benefits on the basis of an insurance relationship. They include the statutory pension insurance, health insurance companies and professional associations.
Application principle
From the social rights claims by the citizens according to § 2 Abs. 1 SGB I can only be asserted or derived insofar as their prerequisites and content are determined in detail by the regulations. Anyone who wants to receive social benefits must submit an application for social benefits to the responsible service provider ( Section 16 (1) SGB I). Applications are also accepted from all other service providers, from all municipalities and, in the case of people living abroad , also from the official representations of the Federal Republic abroad. Applications to a non-competent service provider must be forwarded immediately to the responsible service provider (Section 16 (2) SGB I).
