Stable contributions require a large capital stock

pensioner According to the coalition agreement, the SPD, Greens and FDP want to add a capital stock of ten billion euros to the pension insurance system from budget funds this year “in a first step”. (Photo: dpa) Berlin With the establishment of a funded pillar, the federal government wants to ensure more intergenerational equity in … Read more

“Grande Sécu” or “health shield”, avenues for better health coverage

“Usually our reports are more confidential”, recognizes Pierre-Jean Lancry, president of the High Council for the future of health insurance (Hcaam). But the publication, in the fall, of the first elements of a report evoking the creation of a “big Secu” had provoked an outcry. It drastically reduced the scope of complementary health insurance. → … Read more

In emergencies, the same price for everyone. Or almost…

Do you know the “emergency patient package”, the FPU? It is one of the many novelties of the 1is January 2022. The device should concern several million French people over the next few months. Voted within the framework of the Social Security financing bill, the FPU provides for a single rate for any visit to … Read more

Insurance: Providing health insurance services to everyone whose service ended before retirement age

Major General Gamal Awad, head of the National Social Insurance Authority, confirmed the signing of a cooperation protocol with the General Authority for Health Insurance to provide all its services from medical care to all citizens who left their work before reaching the retirement age. Finding other job opportunities, and they became without a health … Read more

Corona gives employment agency a deficit of around 22 billion euros

The corona pandemic and the billions in costs associated with short-time work have plunged the Federal Employment Agency (BA) into deep red figures for the second year in a row. The deficit at the end of 2021 is expected to be around 22 billion euros, said a BA spokesman for the Archyde.com news agency on … Read more

Health insurance companies fear increased contributions in long-term care insurance

Health insurance The total expenditure for 2021 was about two billion euros higher than the income – a deficit of two billion euros. (Photo: dpa) Berlin In view of a billion deficit in the past year, the statutory health insurance companies fear an increase in premiums for long-term care insurance as early as the first … Read more

Social Insurance: Providing health insurance services to contracting workers this week

Major General Jamal Awad, President of The National Authority for Social InsuranceThe Insurance Authority will sign a protocol with the General Authority for Health Insurance during the current week, to issue health insurance cards for contracting workers, asking workers to subscribe to insurances free of charge to issue cards for them to cover all types … Read more

New reliefs for nursing home residents take effect in the new year

Resident of a nursing home In practice, the supplements in the first and second year in the home would not bring any relief, so the criticism. (Photo: dpa) Berlin To protect against increasing additional payments for care in the home, the first reliefs will take effect in the New Year. In addition to the payments … Read more