Health insurance not only threatens higher contributions. The income limit up to which they are due is also rising sharply.
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Berlin Employees with higher incomes will have to adjust to higher social security contributions in the coming year. The reason is the regular adjustment of the contribution assessment limits for social insurance. The Federal Ministry of Labor has published the corresponding draft regulation on its website.
Some social security contributions will be increased next year. The temporary reduction in the unemployment insurance contribution to 2.4 percent expires, it increases by 0.2 percentage points to 2.6 percent. Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) has also announced that the average additional contribution in statutory health insurance is to increase by 0.3 percentage points in the coming year. This is currently 1.3 percent, the general rate is 14.6 percent. The SPD, Greens and FDP have also agreed in the coalition agreement to raise the nursing care insurance contribution “moderately”.
For higher earners, the part of their income they have to pay social security contributions on is particularly relevant. The corresponding contribution assessment limits are adjusted annually based on salary developments. While there were hardly any changes last year in view of the corona-related negative wage development, the limit values are now being raised significantly.
In western Germany, for example, contributions will be due in pension insurance and unemployment insurance in the coming year on monthly gross income of up to 7,300 euros; the current limit is 7,050 euros. In the east it increases from 6750 to 7100 euros. In the miner’s pension insurance, the limit values from January are 8,950 euros in the west and 8,700 euros in the east.
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For health and long-term care insurance, the contribution assessment limit will rise nationwide at the beginning of the year from EUR 4,837.50 to EUR 4,987.50. In the coming year, anyone who earns less than 5550 euros per month is subject to statutory health and nursing care insurance. Since the contributions made by the federal government to health and long-term care insurance for recipients of basic security are based on the monthly reference figures, the federal government will have to spend 187 million euros more in 2023 according to the draft ordinance.
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