Pension Insurance Institution
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| State level | Federal level | ||
| founding | 2003 | ||
| Headquarters | Vienna am Handelskai , Austria | ||
| Employee | 4,000 | ||
| Website | www.pensionsversicherung.at | ||
The Pensionsversicherungsanstalt ( PVA ) is the largest pension insurance provider and the largest social insurance provider in Austria . The formerly independent pension insurance institutions for salaried employees and workers were merged on January 1, 2003.
organization
The Pensionsversicherungsanstalt is a nationwide institution. There are state offices in all federal states that deal with a large part of the PVA's agendas on a decentralized basis. Before the merger of the Workers' Pension Insurance Company and the Salaried Employees' Pension Insurance Company in 2003, only the Workers' Pension Insurance Company had state offices, some of which were responsible for several federal states at the same time. The employees' pension insurance company was organized centrally and only had branches in the federal states.
tasks
Pension tasks : The most important task of the PVA concerns the area of pensions . The PVA checks the eligibility requirements for the pension calculation, the pension grant and also takes care of the pensioners. Pensions are compulsory benefits to which there is a legal entitlement. This legal claim can be sued before the labor and social court.
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The following pension benefits from the insured event of old age are provided:
- Retirement pension
- Corridor pension (a new form of old-age pension according to the APG from January 1, 2005)
- Heavy Labor Pension
- Early old-age pension for long insurance periods or the so-called "Hackler regulation" (applies to women born up to December 31, 1959 and men born up to December 31, 1954 - the special form of the heavy-work chipper regulation also applies to women born until December 31, 1963 and Men born until December 31, 1958)
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also from the insured event of reduced ability to work:
- Invalidity pension (workers) or occupational disability pension (salaried employees)
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and from the insured event of death
- Widow's / widower's pension
- Pension for surviving registered partners
- Orphan's pension
- severance pay
Health tasks : In the event of impending incapacity for work due to a physical or mental illness, appropriate measures should be taken to strengthen or restore health. The aim is to maintain the ability of the insured to work for as long as possible and to delay retirement as long as possible. Rehabilitation measures are compulsory tasks to which - as with health care (voluntary task) - there is no individual legal entitlement.
Insurance tasks: For people who are not insured for a pension, there is the possibility of taking out voluntary pension insurance under certain conditions. This offer is intended to give these people the opportunity to obtain a pension despite having previously not paid any pension insurance contributions.
Services
By constantly adapting or changing the social security law, the PVA endeavors to keep the insured person up to date. The following services are offered here:
- Determination and storage of the insurance periods acquired
- Pension forecast for age groups close to retirement
- Care of the individual pension account
- Information through easy to understand brochures
- Support through informal consultation days and exhibition stands
- Clarification through press releases
Online services
The PVA offers various online forms, such as B. Pension applications and applications for voluntary insurance, which are transmitted directly to the insurance company electronically. Online forms facilitate electronic exchange between administrations and citizens. The underlying software was developed by the IT company aforms2web , a provider of form solutions in the e-government and e-business sectors.
Health services
If, due to the physical or mental condition, there is a risk of payment of an occupational disability pension or disability pension , benefits from preventive health care or rehabilitation are provided. There is no individual legal entitlement to these benefits; they can also be granted ex officio under certain circumstances .
Health care
The worker is supposed to maintain this service for as long as possible by alleviating or remedying health impairments at an early stage. This is done by granting spa stays or subsidies for spa stays. These benefits are not anchored in law and are granted voluntarily by the PVA in accordance with financial resources. There is no legal claim. The implementation takes place in PVA's own health facilities or in contract houses.
rehabilitation
Rehabilitation measures are granted after serious accidents, operations and illnesses in order to enable or guarantee continued professional activity. The services are a mandatory task of the PVA and anchored in law. The implementation takes place in PVA's own rehabilitation centers.
The following options are available:
- Medical measures: stay in the rehabilitation center, therapies, prostheses, wheelchairs, etc.
- Professional measures: retraining, adaptation of the workplace for the disabled, etc.
- Social measures: grants or loans for the handicapped-accessible conversion of existing apartments, adaptation of a car, etc.
Other services
- Support fund: In the event of an emergency that is not at fault, a benefit from the support fund can be granted in special cases, taking certain guidelines into account. These services are voluntary; there is no legal claim.
- Care allowance and compensatory allowance: Benefits with a provision or social assistance character that are paid out with the pensions, but are not covered by the pension insurance institution, but are replaced 100% by the federal government.
Self-management
Self-administration is an important principle of the entire Austrian social security system . This means that the federal government transfers state tasks to those actually affected for self-administration. In the case of pension insurance, this means that the pension insurance company is administered by all the compulsorily insured (i.e. a large part of all Austrian employees) and by the employers (who have to pay half of the pension insurance contributions of their employees). In reality it looks like that the Chamber for Workers and Salaried Employees as representatives of the employees to 2/3 and the Austrian Chamber of Commerce as representatives of the employers to 1/3 the so-called "insured person representatives" in the plenary assembly, the highest body of the PVA, posted. Since the extensive tasks of the PVA cannot be carried out by the voluntary members of the self-administration, the self-administration is supported by the so-called "office" - that is, the employees of the PVA.
Employee
The PVA employs over 4,000 people in its Vienna headquarters and nine regional offices. Each regional office is headed by a director. Over 2000 additional employees are employed in the 16 PVA's own special hospitals and two centers for outpatient rehabilitation. In the case of the special hospitals, the management consists of a medical management, an administrative management and a nursing management. Furthermore, an ombudsman is active in the service of the insured and pensioners. Its task is to quickly and unbureaucratically remedy inadequacies and clear up misunderstandings.
budget
With 31.49 billion euros (2012), the pension insurance company manages the second highest budget (after the federal government) in Austria. The coverage rate, i.e. the portion that is financed by the insured themselves, is 98.9%. The administrative expenses are 1.46% (2012).
Others
There were major technical difficulties in 2015 when an electronic administration system was introduced. There were reports of incorrectly issued notices and a backlog of around 30,000 proceedings.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Online forms. Retrieved August 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Online services for e-government and e-business. Retrieved August 7, 2018 .
- ↑ IT chaos: Thousands of files are left in the boarding house. In: derStandard.at. December 15, 2015, accessed December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ Pensions: PVA is struggling with technical problems. In: derStandard.at. November 4, 2015, accessed December 8, 2017 .
- ↑ PVA: IT problems cause backlog of 30,000 cases. In: DiePresse.com. December 16, 2015, accessed January 16, 2018 .
