[Public social assistance amounts for the aged]

This article concerns with the question: which part of public social security expenditures is paid for the elderly population? Hereby we calculated on the dates of 1976 of the "Sozialbericht 1978" the share of payments for those people, which are 60 years and older. So we get a specific quota of "old-age public charge". This quota was in 1976 45.72% of the whole expenditures for social security in the Federal Republic of Germany or 147,039 Mill. DM. This is equivalent with 13% of the gross national product (GNP). This result has however a lack of ability for forecasting the future public social security expenditures because of numerous speculative conditions, which would have to be taken into account.