Care allowance

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The care allowance is in Germany and Austria a form of state aid for dependent people.

In the 19th century, on the other hand, care allowance was the usual term for a payment that sick people or people in need of care had to raise for admission to a hospital and medical treatment there.

Germany

In the long-term care can of care gem. Apply for a care allowance instead of home care assistance in accordance with Section 37 (1) sentence 1 SGB ​​XI . If there is a considerable need for help for the usual and regularly recurring tasks in the course of daily life as a result of an accident at work or an occupational disease, the statutory accident insurance grants a care allowance in accordance with § 44 SGB ​​VII. If there is a need for assistance , the care allowance is a benefit of assistance for care according to SGB ​​XII .

If support is provided outside the parental home, the necessary maintenance of the child or young person must also be ensured ( Section 39, Paragraph 1, Sentence 1 of Book VIII of the Social Code ). This benefit is also referred to as care allowance in child and youth welfare .

The care allowance from long-term care insurance and statutory accident insurance is tax-free ( Section 3 No. 1 EStG).

The tax treatment of care allowance for children in family care is regulated by various BMF letters .

The care allowance is a specific benefit that is not taken into account as income to be used when determining the entitlement to legal aid .

Since January 1, 2017, the previously applicable care levels 0–3 have been replaced by five care levels in the course of the Care Strengthening Act 2. As a result, the benefits that people in need of care receive from the care insurance funds have also changed.

Austria

In Austria , the long-term care allowance is a benefit of the Federal Care Allowance Act , which was passed on January 19, 1993 and came into force on July 1, 1993.

As a forerunner in the federal state of Vorarlberg, the care allowance , also with seven care levels, was in force on the initiative of the Provincial Councilor Fredy Mayer , since January 1, 1990, which reduced the number of assignments in nursing homes and thus created an alternative to nursing home accommodation. Until 2012 there were also care allowance laws in the nine federal states. These were transferred to the Federal Care Allowance Act on January 1, 2012. This led to an - initially unnoticed - tightening of the eligibility requirements. The federal state long-term care allowance laws contained so-called hardship clauses according to which non-Austrians are also entitled to care allowance under certain conditions (e.g. Section 3 (4) Vienna Care Allowance Act, WPGG). The requirement of Austrian citizenship could be waived "if this appeared necessary to avoid social hardship due to personal or family circumstances (including the circumstances of the registered partnership) or the economic circumstances of the foreigner or the foreigner" (§ 3 Paragraph 4 WPGG). As a result, in the course of 2012, people in need of care who had received subsidiary protection status in Austria were repeatedly refused the care allowance.

An annual adjustment for inflation is still pending. The care allowance was increased in 2009 (see table). The care levels should also be reorganized in order to take into account the actually higher time required for people with disabilities and / or dementia . The ministerial draft that was under assessment, as well as the proposal of the Federal Disability Advisory Board, to allow one hour per day for the difficulties arising from disability and / or dementia, i.e. 30 hours for a month, is to be reduced to 25 hours at the suggestion of the Minister of Social Affairs. The hardship surcharge for severely disabled children up to the age of seven is 50 hours, and up to the age of fifteen 75 hours.

In addition, from the 3rd level of care for the insured person for care at home ( home care ) there is a subsidy for the caring relatives, depending on the professional status.

In Austria, at the end of 2010, over 370,000 people were receiving care allowance from the federal government; in July 2012 the figure was already over 440,000. In addition (until the end of 2011) there were recipients according to the federal state long-term care allowance; in 2008 this was almost 60,000.

Care level Care allowance (€ monthly)
Long-term care benefit recipients (in%) (1)
(monthly care needs) by the end of 2008 from 2009 on
1 over 50 hours 148 154 21.7
2 over 75 hours 273 284 34.0
3 over 120 hours
( severe disability , wheelchair ) 		422 443 16.4
4th over 160 hours
( blindness , wheelchair with fecal or urinary incontinence ) 		633 664 15.3
5 over 180 hours
(permanent standby, deafblindness , wheelchair with arm function failure) 		859 902 8.0
6th over 180 hours
(permanent day and night care) 		1172 1242 2.8
7th over 180 hours
(no targeted movement of all extremities) 		1562 1656 1.7
24-hour care (funding, from the 3rd care level)
  Self-employed 225 550
  Dependent 800 1100
Source: APA / Hilfswerk , HV long-term care insurer
(1) only receipt of federal care allowance

Switzerland

There is no explicit long-term care insurance; this is part of the compulsory health insurance .

Italy / South Tyrol

In 2007, the Provincial Law for Care Insurance in South Tyrol passed a care allowance with four levels , with 510, 900, 1,350 or 1,800 euros per month, whereby a care requirement of at least two hours per day was set for the first level.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Frank Andert (editor): Stadtlexikon Radebeul. Historical manual for the Loessnitz . Ed .: Large district town of Radebeul. 2nd, slightly changed edition. City archive, Radebeul 2006, p. 184-185 .
  2. ↑ Gerhard Fieseler: § 39 maintenance benefits for children or young people ( memento from June 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) website of the specialist center for foster children in Saxony-Anhalt, accessed on June 4, 2016.
  3. ↑ Care allowance for children in Familienpflege smartsteuer GmbH, Lexicon, accessed on June 4, 2016
  4. ↑ The income to be used mv-justiz, accessed on June 3, 2016.
  5. ↑ New care levels from 2017 , accessed on January 9, 2017
  6. ↑ Federal Care Allowance Act → Current version
  7. ↑ help.gv.at care provision: care allowance, caring relatives, care at home (house care), social services, old people's and nursing homes
  8. ↑ Umbrella organization of the disabled associations in Austria  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Klaus Voget: 15 years care allowance in Austria July 1, 2008@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.oear.or.at
  9. ↑ HELP.gv.at on care allowance
  10. ^ The way to the Federal Care Act - Vorreiter Vorarlberg, Text: Austrian Red Cross
  11. ↑ http://www.ris.bka.gv.at/Dokument.wxe?Abfrage=LrW&Dokumentnummer=LRWI_S030_000  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.ris.bka.gv.at
  12. ↑ BIZEPS Manfred Srb : 2 percent more care allowance, October 12, 2004
  13. ↑ BIZEPS Extract from the program of the Austrian Federal Government: 7. Social challenges, health 7.1. Affordable care and support, January 9, 2007
  14. ↑ BMSK  ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Planned care allowance increase and care level change on January 1, 2009@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.bmsk.gv.at
  15. ↑ BIZEPS Franz-Joseph Huainigg : We need tailor-made support for people with disabilities. For the upcoming care allowance amendment on June 6, 2008
  16. ↑ BIZEPS Norbert Hofer : Maximum increase of 5%, although the inflation loss is now 20%. June 30, 2008
  17. ↑ BIZEPS Christine Lapp : Despite new elections, decision on care allowance in addition to early pension increase possible on November 1st, 2008. July 10, 2008
  18. ↑ BIZEPS Albert Brandstätter Lebenshilfe : Lebenshilfe regrets the leveling of the hardship surcharge to 25 hours , December 16, 2008.
  19. ↑ BIZEPS Rudolf Hundstorfer : Difficulty surcharge for severely disabled children 50 or 75 hours / month , December 26, 2008.
  20. ↑ Care at home (home care). In: Citizens »Social Affairs and Emergencies» Care Provision. HELP.gv.at , Federal Chancellery Austria, August 1, 2008, accessed on August 17, 2008 .
  21. ↑ http://www.statistik.at/web_de/statistiken/soziales/sozialdienstleistungen_auf_bundesebene/bundespflegegeld/index.html
  22. ↑ a b Main Association of Long-Term Care Insurers , cit. after New record high number of long-term care allowance recipients . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . No. 220 , September 19, 2008, p. 2 .
  23. ↑ according to SN-pur: family allowance increases this year . In: Salzburger Nachrichten . No. 189 , August 13, 2008, p. 2 .
  24. ↑ Autonomous Province of Bolzano South Tyrol Website on family, social issues and community
  25. ↑ BIZEPS Martin Ladstätter: Care allowance in South Tyrol, July 28, 2008