German Pension Insurance Knappschaft-Bahn-See

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German Pension Insurance
Knappschaft-Bahn-See
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social insurance statutory pension insurance , statutory health insurance
legal form Public corporation
founding October 1, 2005
Jurisdiction Germany
Seat Bochum
Board Edeltraud Glänzer and
Karl Friedrich Jakob alternate every year
Managing directors Bettina am Orde
Supervisory authority Federal Social Security Office
Insured 2.1 million (DRV) (2018)
7,100 (seaman's fund)
1.57 million ( Knappschaft )
pensioner 1.7 million (2018)
Budget volume 50.98 billion euros (2020)
Employee 22,867 (2020)
Website www.kbs.de

The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See ( KBS ; official abbreviation: DRV KBS ) is a German federal social insurance agency with its headquarters in Bochum . The social insurance agency with self-administration, established in 2005 in the legal form of a corporation under public law, is a pension insurance agency in the association of German pension insurance and, under the name Knappschaft, a carrier of statutory health insurance and long-term care insurance . In addition, she takes u. a. with the mini- job center fulfills the federal authority's task as a collection point for marginal part-time employees , with the employer insurance the contribution fund for the contribution procedure U1 and U2 and the carrier of a supplementary pension insurance.

Tasks and achievements

Pension insurance

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All employees who are or were active in the professions of maritime shipping , Deutsche Bahn and mining (see: Pension for Miners ) are covered by the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See as the statutory pension insurance provider . The DRV KBS looks after 5% of all pensioners. Until April 30, 2008, she also performed its duties for employees in the chemical industry as part of a cooperation agreement with the German Federal Pension Insurance .

Medical network

The KBS fulfills its legal mandate of medical rehabilitation and the like. a. with the help of our own rehabilitation clinics. Organizationally, these are owned by the two branches of pension insurance. Eleven hospitals are operated independently or as part of a participation in hospital operating companies , including in Bottrop , Recklinghausen , Bochum-Langendreer , Dortmund and Sulzbach, as well as eleven rehabilitation clinics. In addition, there is a miners 'surgeon system with around 1,500 miners' surgeons and dentists and a social medical service with 27 examination centers.

Knappschaft: health and long-term care insurance

KBS operates under the name Knappschaft as a health and long-term care insurance provider.

Seaman's fund

The Seemannskasse was set up in 1974 by the See-Berufsgenossenschaft . As part of the organizational reform in the statutory accident insurance, it was integrated into the KBS with effect from January 1, 2009. It is an important part of the social protection of seafarers and complements the German social security system. Seafarers can retire from seafaring before they reach the statutory pension insurance age limit. Under certain conditions, you will receive bridging allowance and other supplementary benefits upon application. The Seemannskasse thus takes into account the special requirements and conditions of shipping that would otherwise not be taken into account in the statutory pension insurance.

Mini job center

The KBS is the collection point for the social security contributions of marginal part-time employees (mini-jobbers). The range of tasks of the mini-job center includes not only the reporting procedure and the collection of flat-rate taxes for all commercial mini-jobs, but also the implementation of the household check procedure for mini-jobs in private households. Furthermore, the mini-job center takes on the registration for the statutory accident insurance (GUV) for marginal employment in private households and collects the GUV contributions in addition to the flat-rate contributions and the uniform flat-rate tax.

Federal Office for Accessibility

The Federal Accessibility Center was set up at KBS on July 19, 2016 by Section 13 Equal Opportunities for People with Disabilities (BGG). She primarily advises and supports federal authorities in the planning and implementation of accessibility in accordance with the BGG, from structural access to barrier-free information and communication. In addition, she also advises companies, associations and social organizations on request.

Supplementary pension insurance

The supplementary pension insurance is a supplementary pension for the public service . The prerequisite for insurance in the supplementary pension insurance is that the employer is a participant in the sense of the statutes of the supplementary pension. He checks the requirements for compulsory insurance and registers the employee for compulsory insurance in the supplementary pension. The supplementary pension insurance comes from the former Department B of the Bahnversicherungsanstalt (BahnVA).

Employer insurance

The employer insurance of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See is a contribution fund for the contribution U1 and the contribution U2 . Since 2006, the Expenditure Compensation Act regulates the conditions under which employers are reimbursed for the costs of continued wages (U1) and maternity benefits (U2) (compensation procedure) and how the reimbursements are financially distributed among all employers (allocation procedure). The employer insurance is the responsible contribution fund if the employees of the employers are insured with the Knappschaft (own spelling KNAPPSCHAFT) or work in marginal employment .

history

The KBS was created on October 1, 2005 as a corporation under public law by changing the name of the Federal Miners' Association to Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See and the incorporation of the insurance carriers Bahnversicherungsanstalt and Seekasse . The merger was part of an overall concept for the reorganization of the statutory pension insurance in Germany with the law on organizational reform in the statutory pension insurance of December 9, 2004 as the legal basis.

In 2010, on the occasion of the 750th anniversary of the organizational association Knappschaft, their achievements as the origin of today's social system were recognized. For example, from July 1, 2010 there was the anniversary exhibition On Broad Shoulders in the German Mining Museum in Bochum and on November 11, 2010 the special stamp 750 years of the Knappschaft of Deutsche Post. Chancellor Angela Merkel paid tribute to the importance of the Knappschaft with a speech at the festive event on January 19, 2011 in Essen.

At the end of October 2015, Georg Greve , who was chairman of the management of the Bundesknappschaft and KBS from 1998, retired. Bettina am Orde was introduced to the office as successor.

organization

KBS headquarters in Bochum

organs

The organs are the representative assembly, the board of directors and the management:

Representative Assembly
The assembly of representatives - the parliament of the CAB, so to speak - has 30 honorary members, 15 each of insured persons and employers' representatives. In addition to numerous other tasks, the representative assembly elects the members of the board and management and, among other things, decides on the statutes and budget of the KBS. The chairmanship of the meeting of representatives changes annually on October 1st between the groups (insured and employer representatives).
Board
The board manages the social network system KBS with the exception of the ongoing administrative business carried out by the management. He thus makes all important organizational, financial and personnel management fundamental and guiding decisions. The board of directors consists of 18 members, half of whom are representatives of the insured and half of whom perform their duties on a voluntary basis. Its chairmanship changes annually on October 1st between the groups (insured and employer representatives). Since October 1, 2019, Prof. Dr. Karl Friedrich Jakob, the CEO as employer representative, Edeltraud Glänzer, as the insured person's representative, the Deputy CEO.
Managing directors
The members of the management direct the business of DRV KBS full-time. They represent the interests of the CABs and their insured persons in a large number of committees, B. in the extended directorate of the German Pension Insurance Association in Berlin and as the carrier of the health insurance Knappschaft at the level of the central associations, which make factual decisions about nationwide uniformly regulated problems. The management consists of Bettina am Orde (first director), Heinz-Günter Held (director) and Andreas Gülker (member of the management) (as of January 2019).

Employee representation

As a federal authority, the KBS has a main staff council and, in departments, staff councils in accordance with the Federal Staff Representation Act .

Locations

Regional Directorate Chemnitz
Regional Directorate Cottbus

The KBS head office is in Bochum . There are also regional offices in Berlin , Chemnitz , Cottbus , Frankfurt am Main , Hamburg , Hanover , Munich and Saarbrücken . Each of the regional offices (with the exception of Berlin) has subordinate offices. Furthermore, the KBS operates information and advice centers for the pension insurance nationwide and has around 900 voluntary elders nationwide who advise and support members in questions of health, long-term care and pension insurance.

Legal and technical supervision

The supervisory authority is the Federal Social Security Office , which is subordinate to the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs and the Federal Ministry of Health . The KBS is therefore one of the few social insurance companies that is subject to federal supervision. The supervisory authority for occupational safety is the Federal and Railway Accident Insurance on behalf of the Central Office for Occupational Safety at the Federal Ministry of the Interior , as the state trade offices are not responsible for federal authorities. The Federal Accident Insurance Fund does not act here in the context of accident prevention according to SGB ​​VIII , but as the competent authority according to § 21 ArbSchG paragraph 5 in connection with ordering powers according to § 22 ArbSchG.

Budget and accounting

The budget of the CAB is the basis for administrative and economic activity in the financial year. It consists of several individual plans for the various tasks performed and also includes the business plans of the company's own operations.

The budget prepared by the board of directors subject to approval must be bindingly determined by the representative assembly before it is submitted to the federal government for approval in accordance with Section 71 SGB ​​IV. Until the federal government approves the budget, it remains pending ineffective .

literature

  • Georg Greve among others: The Knappschaft as a social scout: 750 years of the Knappschaft. Social responsibility at all times. Ed .: Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See, Bochum 2010.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. a b c d e Knappschaft-Bahn-See at a glance. Retrieved January 11, 2020 .
  2. Federal list of abbreviations. Status: July 2018, accessed on January 6, 2019 (PDF).
  3. Inserted with effect from July 27, 2016 by Article 1 of the law on the further development of the Disability Equality Act (BGGWEntG) of July 19, 2016.
  4. DRV KBS , accessed on January 22, 2017
  5. Change at the top of the Deutsche Rentenversicherung Knappschaft-Bahn-See . Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs , press release, November 20, 2015, accessed on January 6, 2019.
  6. The Representative Assembly of the CAB . CAB website, accessed January 6, 2019.
  7. ^ The board of the KBS. Retrieved November 18, 2019 .
  8. ^ The management of the Knappschaft-Bahn-See . CAB website, accessed January 6, 2019.