Retirees, who are subject to compulsory insurance (SHI)
In terms of the Federal Ministry of Health:
Retirees, who are subject to compulsory insurance, must pay health insurance contributions for their pension from the statutory
pension insurance as well as for other retirement benefits and earned income from self-employment.
Based on the general contribution rate of 14.6 percent, payment of the contributions is shared between the retirees and the
pension insurance institutions.
In addition, the health insurances can levy an additional contribution from their members. The contributions from the pensions
and other retirement benefits and the earned income have to be defrayed only by the retirees, who are subject to compulsory insurance.
In case of voluntarily insured retirees, for the contribution assessment will be applied successively the value of the pension,
the value of other retirement benefits, the earned income and any other income, which determine the economic capacity of the
voluntary member, up to the contribution assessment ceiling. Voluntary members defray the contribution basically alone.
But they receive from the pension insurance institutions a grant towards to the contributions that have to be paid from the pension.
The grant will be half the general contribution rate and is therefore 7.3 percent of the pension.
Updated: 26 Feb 2016
Selected information about "Retirees, who are subject to compulsory insurance (SHI)":
Tables:
- Dentists, treatment of persons insured in the statutory health insurance
- Domestic help for the persons insured in the Statutory Health Insurance
- Domestic nursing care / technical care of the persons insured
- Hospital stays, persons insured in the Statutory Health Insurance
- Inpatient child deliveries, persons insured in the Statutory Health Insurance
- Measures for the early recognition of illnesses, persons insured in the statutory health insurance and their children
- Members of the Statutory Health Insurance, annual average
- Outpatient operations according to § 115b SGB V in hospitals, persons insured in the Statutory Health Insurance
- Rehabilitation measures, persons insured in the SHI (2000 bis 2013)
- Rescue journeys and patients' transport, persons insured in the Statutory Health Insurance
- Services for pregnancy and motherhood, persons insured in the Statutory Health Insurance
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