Voluntarily insured pensioners pay too high health insurance contributions

– How self-employed persons and pensioners are also transferred from pension schemes to compulsory insurance – Typically, (compulsory) members of the 89 professional pension schemes are either privately insured in old age (PKV) or voluntarily insured by the statutory health insurance system (GKV) at too high a price. However, this also frequently affects former self-employed […]

Insurance obligation in the KV? Part 2

On 15 July 2015, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) issued a statement on foreign private health insurance (PKV), including considerable legal errors. Here now part 2. High risk for European health insurance intermediaries from 2016″? In addition to the legal errors already mentioned (we already reported in Part 1), there is a risk for […]

Who is entitled to a contribution subsidy from the employer?

Additional burdens for the employer with PKV-insured employees Do employees with private health insurance have a right under employment law to a contribution subsidy for private health insurance from their employer? And if so, under what conditions? And there’s also the question of how the employer contribution is taxable. By decision of the Federal Social […]

Facilitated return to the statutory health insurance system

The new “Law for the elimination of social excessive demands in case of contribution debts in the health insurance” regulates a new obligatory follow-up insurance as an automatic voluntary continued insurance even after only one day of previous insurance, Sounds complicated, but it is actually quite simple.   Anyone who legally leaves the previous compulsory […]