In Germany, which hosted the first premium-based socialinsurance practices, the non- premium payment regime is animportant social policy component that complements the social security system. In the implementation of social security policies as awhole, Germany participates in the financing process of the non premium payment regime as in the premium regime and controls theprocess. In the case of Germany, the characteristics of the operationthat constitute the premium payment regime in terms of both scopeand management process constitute the focus of this study. In orderto achieve this focus, first the main principles that shape the Germansocial security system were tried to be explained, and then the scopeand management processes of premium and non-premium paymentregimes were examined on the basis of a legislative arrangementcalled the "Social Law" [Sozialgesetzbuch (SGB)] and containingdetailed sub-titles. It has been observed that in Germany, non premium payments are based on a public interest idea that is inherentto the social security system, that can predict the asymmetricconsequences of inequalities of opportunity on people facingeconomic and social risks, and that aims to provide social protectionfunction on the basis of equal opportunity. In essence which can besummarized as "establishing social justice", non-premium paymentshave two basic functions in this idea: First, to overcome theinequalities surrounding different segments of the society or at leastto mitigate their short- and medium-term effects; the second is tomake social risks that prevent access to social and economic rightsmanageable and eliminated by the public power.