The Chancellor will donate his 3000 euros inflation bonus, said his spokesman.
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Berlin Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) and his cabinet will receive an inflation premium of 3,000 euros, analogous to civil servants, judges and soldiers. This is provided for by a cabinet decision on Thursday.
According to government spokesman Steffen Hebestreit, the latest collective agreement for the public sector will be transferred to federal civil servants “with the same effect and in line with the system”. “And that includes the federal ministers and the federal chancellor.”
However, Hebestreit promised that the chancellor would donate the sum. How the other members of the government want to behave was initially unclear.
Six ministers initially did not say whether they would donate the money
According to “Bild”, ten other cabinet members said they wanted to donate the money. According to the newspaper, only the ministers Pistorius (defense), Schmidt (chancellor’s office), Wissing (traffic), Lindner (finance), Buschmann (justice) and Lauterbach (health) initially did not comment on this.
The lobby organization “Association of Taxpayers” and the opposition had asked the cabinet a few weeks ago to waive the money.
The background is the collective agreement from last spring, which provides for such an inflation premium for employees in the public sector. According to the Ministry of the Interior, such degrees are regularly transferred to the federal civil service salary – and the official salary of the ministers is linked to this.
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