[Requirements for security for widows according to their needs. Remarks on the discussion on dependents' allowance in West Germany].
The article is concerned with the present regulations of the old-age-pension for widows. At first the author discusses the legislator's assumptions of different financial needs between widows and widowers. Thereby he considers the last decision of the West German Bundesverfassungsgericht on the rate of the old-age-pension for widows (June 1978). New researches on the consumption of aged people give reason to criticise the present financial regulation, which places 60% of the deceased husband's old-age-pension at the widow's disposal. This is confirmed by new consumer data of the West German Statistisches Bundesamt as well as by the results of an empirical research study on the consumer behavior of aged people, carried out by the Institut für Sozialforschung und Gesellschaftspolitik, Cologne. The main interest is to show the consequences of different financial regulations for widows and widowers on their consumer behavior. In this context the article deals especially with the attitudes of aged people towards the differences in the survivor's pension and with the process of economical adaption after the death of the husband.
D000367:Age Factors; D000368:Aged; D003643:Death; D005260:Female; D005860:Germany, West; D006801:Humans; D007878:Legislation as Topic; D008393:Marriage; D009826:Old Age Assistance / Q000191:economics*; D011632:Public Assistance / Q000191:economics*; D012737:Sex Factors; D012847:Single Person
Zur Forderung nach einer bedarfsorientierten Witwensicherung. Anmerkungen zur Diskussion um die Hinterbliebenenregelung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland.