A person who receives social assistance or supplementary benefits (EL) is faced with a key question when making a gift: Does this gift affect their entitlement to social assistance or EL? And if so, what are the specific effects?

Parents of children with a mental or physical disability often ask themselves a key question when planning their estate: do they have to explicitly take their child’s disability into account when drawing up their will or inheritance contract? If so, the question then arises as to whether this could have an impact on social security […]

If the deceased person has no relatives, the municipality initially organises the funeral. However, if it turns out that the deceased person does have relatives, they will be charged with the funeral costs.