📋 Tender Overview
First and foremost, legal clarifications and various technical changes are contained in the Social Security Amendment Act 2024 (2607 d.B.) presented by the government. For example, obsolete provisions are to be deleted from social security laws and clarifications are to be made with regard to the pension insurance of apprentices and freelancers. It is also clarified that periods of a registered partnership and a subsequent marriage are to be added together for the entitlement to a widow's or widower's pension and its assessment.
What is new is that pension benefits and other benefits resulting from social security are to be suspended in the future not only in the case of imprisonment in Germany or in another EU country, as is already the case with imprisonment in Germany or in another EU country. In addition, periods of care leave, part-time care leave and accompanying children to rehabilitation stays are to be considered as months of insurance due to gainful employment in the future with regard to the minimum insurance period required for the acquisition of a pension entitlement. When calculating the survivor's pension, the amount of a (fictitious) early retirement pension under the long-term insurance regulation must be taken into account in the future. In order to avoid cases of hardship, it should also be possible for BSVG insured persons to waive the 20 percent deductible for non-inpatient medical treatment in the case of chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Further provisions of the draft concern the social security institutions.
