Compensation payments

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Compensation payments are granted in Germany to former soldiers for a period in the Bundeswehr who hold an integration certificate (E-certificate). They contribute to the integration of soldiers into civilian working life and are paid instead of transitional fees.

Legal basis

The legal basis for the compensation payments is essentially § 11a Soldiers Supply Act (SVG).

Eligibility requirements

In addition to the e-certificate, the prerequisite is the receipt of candidate remuneration as a civil servant on revocation or remuneration as a civil servant . Entitlement also exists if the former soldier was not hired on a reserved position . As long as the former soldier is an e-ticket holder, he can apply for this to be added to his personal file in order to receive compensation.

Amount of remuneration

The amount of compensation is the difference between the basic salary of the last month of service as a soldier (salary group and level of experience) and the salary as a civil servant. This difference is reduced by 0.99 percent ( Section 89a sentence 3 SVG). This corresponds to the general reduction in pension payments for civil servants ( Section 5, Paragraph 1, Clause 2, Beamtenversorgungsgesetz, BeamtVG) and soldiers ( Section 17, Paragraph 1, Clause 2 SVG). Since only the basic salary and, if applicable, official allowances ( Section 89a Soldiers Supply Act, sentence 2 SVG) are relevant, z. B. position allowances as a soldier or civil servant not taken into account, d. H. if a position allowance is granted as a civil servant, this does not reduce the compensation payments. For the remuneration of the last month of service as a soldier, the salary group and the level of experience are decisive, but not the actual amount. As a result, pay increases for soldiers lead to increases in compensatory pay, unless the civil servant's pay also increases to a greater extent.

Compensation payments are calculated and paid by the Federal Office of Administration (service centers). The former soldier is obliged to report changes to his civil servant pay to the Federal Office of Administration as long as he is entitled to compensation payments. ( § 60 Abs. 2 Nr. 2 SVG) Failure to report does not constitute an administrative offense that could be punished with a fine . ( § 91b SVG)

The compensation payments paid over the entire entitlement period can significantly exceed the sum of the transitional allowances and fees for former soldiers without an e-license.

End of payments

The compensation payments are paid for a maximum of ten years or until the basic salary from the employment relationship as a civil servant exceeds that of the last salary as a soldier. The entitlement also ends if the civil servant relationship ends after being appointed civil servant for life .

If the right from the integration certificate expires, the right to compensatory payments also expires ( Section 9 (5) SVG) and the right to transitional allowance , transitional fees and school and vocational training through the Bundeswehr's vocational promotion service is revived. If compensation has already been paid, the transitional allowance and fees will be reduced proportionally. If, in total, more compensation has been paid than the transitional allowance and fees are due, this overpayment does not have to be reimbursed. The maximum cost limits for external training measures ( § 19 Vocational Promotion Ordinance (BFöV)) remain unaffected.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ "Integration and approval certificate" - integration into the public service. (PDF) In: https://www.personal.bundeswehr.de/ . Bundeswehr, May 2018, accessed on August 30, 2019 (p. 5).
  2. ↑ Provision of temporary service for former soldiers. In: https://www.bva.bund.de/ . Federal Office of Administration, accessed on 23 August 2019 .