Editing Hartz concept (section)

==Hartz I, II, and III==
Hartz I and II both came into effect on 1 January 2003, aiming at making new types of jobs easier to create, and covered, for example:

=== Hartz I ===
*The foundation of "Staff Services agencies" (''Personal-Service-Agenturen'' or PSAs).
*Support for vocational further education from the German Federal Labour Agency.
*Subsistence payments by the Federal Labour Agency.

=== Hartz II ===
*New types of employment, [[Mini job]] and [[Midi job]], with lower or gradually rising taxes and insurance payments.
*A grant for entrepreneurs, known as the "Ich-AG"  (''Me, Inc.'').
*Introduction of Jobcenters, local government facilities for providing [[public employment services]]

=== Hartz III ===
*Hartz III came into effect on 1 January 2004. This measure was aimed at restructuring and reforming the federal public employment services agency, whose name was changed from the '' Bundesanstalt für Arbeit''  or ''[[Arbeitsamt]]'' (Federal Labour Institution), to the ''Bundesagentur für Arbeit'' or ''[[:de:Agentur für Arbeit|Agentur für Arbeit]]'' (Federal Labour Agency).