Child allowance

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The child allowance was provided by the statutory pension insurance . Pensioners received the child allowance in addition to their own pension ( old-age pension , disability pension , education pension ) for each child in the household. Only natural and adopted children as well as stepchildren taken into the household are considered children within the meaning of the law, but not foster children or grandchildren.

The child allowance has been DM 152.90 per month since 1978 or € 78.18 today. Child allowance was regularly paid up to the age of 18. In addition, child allowance could be granted up to a maximum of 27 years of age if certain conditions were met; this limit was shifted, if necessary, by the duration of the statutory basic military service or community service. Child allowance was not given to anyone who was entitled to child allowance from statutory accident insurance, an orphan's pension or child-related benefits from the public service or professional pension funds.

The child allowance expired on January 1, 1984 and was only paid for children who were born before that date. On January 1, 1992, the child allowance as a benefit of the pension insurance was finally abolished; However, anyone who still had a claim on this date retained it in accordance with Section 270 SGB ​​VI within the framework of the safeguarding of vested rights. After 1992, the child allowance was no longer part of the pension, but as an additional benefit that had to be applied for separately.

According to the Federal Government, the last time a child in Germany received a child allowance was in October 2011. For this reason, Section 270 SGB VI was repealed on January 1, 2017 for lack of practical relevance.

literature

  • Ernst-Jürgen Borchert: The consideration of family education in the law of the statutory pension insurance: a contribution to the pension reform . Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1981, ISBN 3428448871 , pp. 98-104

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Bavarian LSG, November 14, 2001, AZ L 19 RJ 487/99
  2. ^ German Bundestag - BR-Drucksache 117/16