Long-term benefit receipt is a profound problem within the German minimum income scheme. Interventions increasingly focus on the individual beneficiary. The study shows that individualised policies are ridden with prerequisites mainly impeding long-term beneficiaries' efforts to exit entitlement by means of the minimum income scheme.
Norbert Petzold was research fellow at the Department of Social Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, Germany. His research interests are social inclusion, minimum income protection, and activation.