Instruments Changes in benefits, benefit conditionality and enabling schemes

3 Instruments Changes in benefits, benefit conditionality and enabling schemes 

In this context, the term benefits first of all refers to monetary benefits that replace or supplement income, since their entitlement criteria have the most conspicuous activation impact, also with a view to the related sanctions. But particularly in terms of activation, we should keep in mind that benefits, by nature, are not restricted to payouts. Especially of late, they have increasingly been conceptualised as a right to (re)integration or support, though not necessarily characterised by specific performance . This descriptive and operational use of the term is thus a major issue in the field of benefits in services (cf. 1.). The terms and 

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