Optimisation of widow’s pensions for compulsory members of pension schemes

– Possibilities of structuring pension assets in pension chambers –   The Higher Administrative Court of Rhineland-Palatinate (OVG Rheinland-Pfalz, judgment of 26.05.2010, Case No. 6 A 10320/10.OVG) already dismissed the action of a doctor who wanted to have it established that his wife would later be entitled to a widow’s pension from the pension fund. […]

Working time credits predominantly unprotected

– Why employer time value accounts regularly do not offer insolvency protection –   The “Flexi II Act” came into force on 01.09.2009. This was intended to provide employees with better protection against loss in the event of the employer’s insolvency. Today, this proves to be incorrect in at least 98% of the companies.   […]

Riester returns are far more rewarding for higher earners than for lower earners

– Which is why this also applies to the statutory pension as well as private pension insurances -.   A study by the Free University of Berlin dated 15 June 2015 describes the distribution effects of old-age pensions on different population groups. On the other hand, an expert of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (DRV) thinks […]

Retirement planning with annuity purchase instead of life insurance or sovereign wealth funds with cash cover

– How the state can ensure the efficiency of retirement planning for the middle class –   After 31 years of work, average earners will only receive a basic pension (social welfare level, with up to less than 758 euros per month) – low earners would have to work 63 years in social security for […]

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Save taxes on capital payments under the company pension scheme (bAV), severance payments and after active partial retirement

– How to design more retirement income and pension increases early on ?   “He who does not work should not eat” (Franz Müntefering, 09.05.2006)   In the last up to more than 35 years, people’s parties have more than halved the statutory net pension level. The cost of an equally high funded pension in […]

Statutorily insured without occupational abandonment

The most important information on compulsory health insurance and pension insurance for the self-employed The Federal Social Court (BSG, ruling of 29.07.2015, Ref. B 12 KR 4/13 R) ruled that the mere performance of duties as a body of a corporation (AG, GmbH) without further active involvement in the GmbH beyond that does not constitute […]

Compulsory insurance in KV and RV for self-employed persons

– How the self-employed can take out statutory insurance even if they do not have a job –   The Federal Social Court (BSG, ruling of 29.07.2015, Ref. B 12 KR 4/13 R) ruled that the mere performance of duties as a body of a corporation (AG, GmbH) without further active involvement in the GmbH […]

The fairy tale of the unprofitable German pension insurance scheme

– When a funded pension would be comparable –   The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Bund (DRV) lets its insured know that voluntary contributions in particular lead to an annual pension of 5.18%. In many cases, it is nonsensical to compare returns, as this would require consideration of the increasing payouts, including increasing life expectancy. The answer […]

How the self-employed can take out statutory insurance

In the case of the Federal Social Court, the owner of a clothing chain was to be treated only as a “part-time self-employed person” after he had received a widower’s and standard old-age pension, so that in future he would not have to pay the higher voluntary contributions but only compulsory contributions to the statutory […]