As of: February 29, 2024, 4:25 p.m
By: Lisa Mayerhofer
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A look at the Bundestag: The monthly compensation for members of parliament is adjusted annually.
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According to calculations by the Taxpayers' Association, members of the Bundestag will receive a record diet increase in July.
The association protests.
Berlin – There is apparently a generous salary increase this year for the 736 members of the German Bundestag.
According to calculations by the Taxpayers' Association (BdSt), they will receive a record diet increase of six percent in July.
There has not been such a high increase since 1995.
635.50 euros more for members of the Bundestag
The monthly MP compensation is adjusted annually on July 1st.
According to the law on representatives, the basis is the development of the nominal wage index.
The Federal Statistical Office reported this on Thursday as 6.0 percent.
As a result of the automatic linkage decided in 2014, MPs' salaries - and also MPs' pensions - will also increase by 6.0 percent.
The Taxpayers' Association calculated that the diets would be increased by 635.50 euros from the current 10,591.70 euros per month to 11,227.20 euros.
However, the Bundestag can also decide to forego this increase.
He did this, for example, in 2020 during the corona pandemic.
Taxpayers' Association criticizes mega diet increase
BdSt President Reiner Holznagel is critical of this increase - he calls for the automatic adjustment of MPs' salaries to be abolished.
He complains: “With this fully automatic system, there is no discussion, no debate or explanation by members of the Bundestag to the population.”
The deputies necessarily decided on their own behalf.
“Transparency and more justification in the form of a proper legislative process are all the more important if the MPs want to decide on higher diets for themselves.” An automatism does not guarantee this and is not democratically worthy of the Bundestag.
(lma/dpa)