Private pension provision affects us all While 20 years ago bottle collecting pensioners were a rare sight on Germany’s streets, today they are already part of the everyday street scene. The results of a survey of the Deutsche Bank clearly show that already every second German citizenhas anxiety about this, no longer be able to […]
– 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 […]
– What information, education and advisory duties are imposed on employers? – The Regional Labour Court (Landesarbeitsgericht – LAG Hamm, judgement of 06.12.2017, file no. 4 Sa 852/17) decided that the employer (AG) is liable for damages if the advice on deferred compensation in company pension schemes (bAV) was incorrect. This was the case even […]
– Have supplementary nursing care insurance policies served their time as asset protection policies? – Compulsory long-term care insurance (PPV) as partial coverage “Help yourself, that’s how God helps you” thought the legislator when he created the JPA – even with “Pflege-Bahr” only a partial cover of up to less than 50% of the nursing […]
Loss of company pension scheme for managing directors in the event of insolvency The company pension scheme has increasingly become the focus of public interest in recent years due to changes and adjustments in pension policy. Politicians are increasingly shifting the issue of pensions into the personal responsibility of employees and employers, which means that […]
– Why is it that no one is harmed? – Reduction of pensions by pension funds and pension institutions Expectations regarding the level of benefits at pension institutions (PA) and pension funds (PK) have been steadily and foreseeably clouding over for many years. Section 314 of the Insurance Supervision Act (VAG) allows the Financial […]
Are state parliamentarians threatened with poverty in old age? Trade union pension experts complained in 2018 that members of a state parliament received 3.675% p.a. of their diets as a pension under the pension law in force until 2007, with a calculated income of EUR 8,220 after five years, i.e. EUR 1,510 as a pension. […]
Household management damage, mobbing damage and maintenance: When benefits are tax-free – something often overlooked by consultants. Anyone who is reduced in earning capacity as a result of a third-party-induced damage to health receives compensation for this, which is taxable as it replaces earned income. However, for the reduced ability to carry out unpaid […]
A marketing expert remarked: “The best marketing agency is in Berlin – that is, the government”. First came the Riester pension with subsidised allowances, then the increasingly tax-deductible basic pension – also known as the Rürup pension. One financial services provider said: “The shift from state to private retirement provision is a growth market for […]
– How can insured persons react to the increased risk of insolvency? – Up to more than one million English life insurance policies (with-profit products) are to be transferred to Ireland. However, on closer inspection it is completely unnecessary to leave Great Britain (GB) for the existing policies. Existing contracts need not be […]
