Statutory pension insurance
In terms of the Statistics on those actively insured, on the rehabilitation services, on the number of retired people and on people entering retirement of the German Annuity Insurance Federation:The statutory pension insurance is a branch of the social insurance. It protects the persons insured in case of danger or loss of earning capacity, old age as well as their surviving dependants in case of death.
The responsibilities of the statutory pension insurance are:
- Erbringungen von Leistungen zur Teilhabe,
- calculation and payment of pensions and additional benefits,
- the payment of contributions to the health insurance of the pensioners as well as
- counseling and advise of the persons insured and the pensioners.
Effective from 2005 the organization of the statutory pension insurance was fundamentally restructured by the "Gesetz zur Organisationsreform in der gesetzlichen Rentenversicherung". By combination of the statutory pension insurance for manual workers and the statutory pension insurance for salaried employees to the general pension insurance the statutory pension insurance is today divided into only two insurance organizations: the general pension insurance and the miners' pension insurance. Starting from 1 October 2005 the responsibilities of the statutory pension insurance have been fulfilled by two federal supporting organizations as well as regional supporting organizations under the umbrella of the statutory pension insurance. The federal supporting organizations are on the one hand the German Annuity Insurance Federation, which results from the fusion of the Federal Insurance Institutions for Employees and the Association of German Annuity Insurance Institutions and on the other hand the German pension insurance miners-railway-sea, which results from the fusion of the until then independent insurance organizations railway insurance institution, federal miners' insurance (Bundesknappschaft) and Seamen's Accident Prevention and Insurance Association (Seekasse). For the support of the persons insured in the general pension insurance also the regional supporting organizations (former state insurance Institutions for employees) are responsible. With the new organization the traditional separation between manual workers and salaried employees is abandoned.
Before that time the statutory pension insurance was organizationally divided into:
- the statutory pension insurance for manual workers,
- the statutory pension insurance for salaried employees and
- the miners' pension insurance.
The Law of the statutory pension insurance is basically regulated in the Sixth Book of the Code of Social Law (SGB). Regulations about measures to ensure participation that are applicable to the pension insurance are since 1 July 2001 also in the Code of Social Law ¿ book 9.
Selected information about "Statutory pension insurance":
Tables:
- Pensions and average monthly pension payment in the statutory pension insurance
- Pensions because of diminution of ability to work, average entry age, from 2000
- Pensions because of diminution of ability to work, new pensions, e.g. by region (starting from 2010)
- Pensions due to age in the statutory pension insurance
- Pensions due to disability in the statutory pension insurance, e.g. by region
- Rehabilitation services SPI, inpatient, adults, average age using services (starting from 2000)
- Rehabilitation services SPI, inpatient, adults, e.g. by age (starting from 2000)
- Rehabilitation services SPI, inpatient, adults, e.g. by place of residence (starting from 2000)
- Rehabilitation services SPI, inpatient, children, e.g. by treatment result
- Rehabilitation services SPI, outpatient, adults, e.g. by age
Digrams:
- Pension payment, average in the Statutory Pension Insurance [Line Chart]
- Pensions because of diminution of ability to work in the Statutory Pension Insurance by age [Line Chart]
- Pensions because of diminution of ability to work in the Statutory Pension Insurance by sex [Line Chart]
- Pensions in the statutory pension insurance [Line Chart]
- Rehabilitation services (SPI), inpatient, adults by sex [Line Chart]
Data Sources:
- Statistics on people entering retirement
- Statistics on people entering retirement - Methods [general]
- Statistics on the rehabilitation services
- Statistics on the rehabilitation services - Methods [general]
- Statistics on those actively insured
- Statistics on those actively insured - Methods [general]
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