Nursing contributions: Lauterbach promises timely implementation

Created: 05/25/2022Updated: 05/25/2022 12:52 p.m

Karl Lauterbach (SPD), Federal Minister of Health.

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Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach has promised implementation by July next year after the decision of the Federal Constitutional Court to give children greater consideration in the contributions to long-term care insurance.

"We will implement this decision within the stated period," said the SPD politician to the editorial network Germany (RND).

Berlin - "But the long-term care insurance must also be fundamentally more solidly financed.

We will address that as well,” he added.

In a decision announced on Wednesday, the Federal Constitutional Court called for parents with several children to be better off than childless and smaller families when it comes to statutory long-term care insurance.

The highest German court in Karlsruhe decided that the contribution rates would have to be adjusted according to the specific number of children by the end of July 2023.

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