Social security
Higher social security contributions for high earners from 2026 planned
The income limit, up to which social contributions are to be paid, is redefined annually – analogous to wage development. What does that mean for employees and pensioners in the coming year?
People with higher incomes are expected to pay more money to their social security in the coming year. It is about raising the so -called assessment limit for income, up to which social contributions are to be paid. It is adapted to wage development annually. The Federal Ministry of Labor sent the corresponding draft regulation on Friday to vote on the other departments. The draft, which previously reported the “Politico” portal, is available to the German Press Agency.
What is intended for the individual insurance types?
In the general pension insurance, the contribution ceiling is expected to increase from 8,050 euros per month from 1 January to 8,450 euros. In the statutory health insurance, the contribution ceiling should also increase – from EUR 5,512.50 this year to EUR 5,812.50 in the coming year. The compulsory insurance limit, i.e. the limit to which employees, must generally be legally insured, should be raised from 6,150 euros in gross monthly income to then 6,450 euros per month.
What the contribution ceiling is
The contribution ceiling in pension insurance is the maximum amount of gross income, until the contributions to the legal system of old -age insurance, to which employees and employers contribute, will be levied. Income above this border is not used for the calculation of pension insurance contributions. In order to determine the decisive values of the computing variables of social security, you look at the development of wages and salaries.
Far -reaching political demands
The SPD health expert Christos Pantazis proposed in an interview in June that high earners deposit more into statutory health insurance. Specifically, he advocated an increase in the contribution ceiling by around 2,500 euros in order to stabilize the tense financial situation of insurance. The health policy spokesman for the Greens, Janosch Dahmen, also pleaded in addition to structural reforms for an increase “step by step to the level of statutory pension insurance”.
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Source: Stern
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