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In Germany, new record numbers of corona infections are reported almost daily.
While the rules are tightened even more and daily restrictions are increasing again, the virus is already having a concrete impact on our wallets!
Health insurance companies
The pandemic is increasing employee contributions to health insurance!
The average additional premium alone will rise in the next year from 1.1 to 1.3 percent today, warns the legal health insurance evaluation group (GKV).
“Crown costs and additional expenses due to numerous health care reforms in recent years have significantly increased cash spending,” Doris Pfeiffer, director of the National Association of Statutory Health Insurance Funds, told BILD.
In the next year, many health insurances would have to increase their contributions. But the situation is getting worse, fears health insurance expert Günter Neubauer, director of the Institute for Health Economics.
“In the medium term, there is a risk that the additional contribution will double,” Neubauer told BILD.
Child benefit
Thousands of lectures are canceled at universities due to Corona. Therefore, most federal states have extended the standard period of study. to. to relieve BAföG recipients, to compensate for failures.
Now the child benefit for parents of students should be paid longer, demands SPD legal expert Florian Post. “It is quite outrageous how badly colleges are tripping over the Corona crisis and how little face-to-face teaching is provided in the winter semester,” Post said.
Therefore, “students and their families must be financially protected,” says the SPD politician.
Breast plan: The previous regulation (benefit for children up to the age of 25) will be “extended for at least two semesters.”
Short-term job
Health authorities before the collapse of the crown! Tens of thousands of people are missing to track infections.
As BILD learned, the federal states are therefore now considering using part-time workers to relieve the health authorities of their work. This plan was discussed by the heads of the state chancellery in a videoconference on Friday.
In principle, this would not be a legal problem: short-term workers can earn up to the full amount of their net income.
FDP health expert Christine Aschenberg-Dugnus (61) has no say in the plan: “With the Bundeswehr there is already proven and adequate support for the health authorities,” she told BILD.
Rather, countries should examine how processes can be improved.
