Care bonus 2022 – who receives the bonus and how much?

The draft law reveals it

Created: 03/22/2022, 08:11

By: Anne Hund

The care bonus is intended to honor the difficult working conditions in the Corona crisis.

As far as the concrete plans are concerned, there is some clear criticism.

© Sebastian Gollnow/dpa

Intensive care nurses and other nursing staff should receive another bonus payment in the Corona crisis – in very different amounts.

What is planned for the care bonus so far.

What are the concrete plans of the federal government for the

?

As the German Press Agency (dpa) reported on March 17, according to a version of the draft law that has now been published,

are to receive a bonus of 2,500 euros.

in these clinics should therefore receive 1,700 euros.

can count on 550 euros,

with up to 370 euros.

The draft bill from the Ministry of Health, which is dated March 10, is available to the German Press Agency.

The federal government has earmarked a total of one billion euros for the care bonus, according to the dpa report, among other things.

“Specifically, the clinics should pay out the bonus in which more than ten Covid cases were treated with artificial respiration in 2021,” the news agency also wrote.

Federal draft law for care bonus 2022 under criticism

On the

there is some clear criticism.

Bavaria's Health Minister Klaus Holetschek (CSU) called the draft insufficient, as the dpa report says, among other things.

"With its plans, the traffic light coalition is disappointing many healthcare workers who would have long since earned an appropriate care bonus," he told the German Press Agency.

The "discrimination" against employees in long-term care is incomprehensible - they too had done outstanding work in the corona pandemic and accepted the risk of illness.

In addition, Holetschek criticized dpa that nurses in clinics who did not meet the criterion of a minimum number of Covid 19 ventilation cases were wrongly excluded from the bonus,

"although the workers there also cared for Covid-19 patients under isolation conditions".

And other employees outside of the direct care at the bedside in hospitals were also affected by these additional burdens in the same way.

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Who gets the maintenance bonus?

According to the draft law, full-time employees in care facilities should receive 550 euros, according

to the dpa report of March 17, among other things.

370 euros are therefore provided “for other employees who spend at least 25 percent of their working hours together with people in need of care in daily structuring, activating, caring for or caring”.

, as dpa further reported on the occasion of the draft.

Federal Health Minister Karl Lauterbach (SPD) had already presented the key points for this in February.

Patient advocates had subsequently criticized the plans.

, the funds made available by the federal government in the amount of one billion euros were not enough

.

Regulation on the tax-free Corona bonus of up to 1,500 euros will expire soon

For many employees in other industries, who in the meantime could hope for a tax-free Corona bonus of up to 1,500 euros voluntarily granted by their employer, a corresponding regulation will now expire at the end of March.

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