Agricultural social insurance (1885)
The agricultural social insurance (LSV) together with the social insurance for horticulture formed the social insurance in Germany until December 31, 2012 for the independent agricultural, forestry and horticultural entrepreneurs , their spouses, working family members, old-age dividers ( pensioners ) and their co-insured relatives ( e.g. children). It comprised the agricultural trade associations (since 1885), agricultural old-age funds (since October 1, 1957), agricultural health insurance funds (since October 1, 1972) and the agricultural long-term care insurance funds (since January 1, 1995). Thus, in this special insurance system, all areas of social insurance relevant to the profession were combined via various providers.
Since 1 January 2013, the social security is for these classes of insurance by the nationwide competent composite beams , the social security of Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture (SVLFG) ensured.
organization
The insurance carriers of the LSV
Up until 2012 there were nine independent administrative communities in Germany that performed the tasks of the LSV through the agricultural trade associations, old-age, health and care insurance funds in the interests of the insured in the respective region:
- LSV Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg
- LSV Central and Eastern Germany
- LSV Lower Saxony-Bremen
- LSV North Rhine-Westphalia
- LSV Hessen, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland
- LSV Baden-Württemberg
- LSV Franconia and Upper Bavaria
- LSV Lower Bavaria, Upper Palatinate and Swabia
- Social insurance for horticulture
The employers' liability insurance associations, old-age insurance funds, health insurance funds and long-term care insurance funds (insurance carriers) were public corporations with self-administration. Their tasks were carried out by the self-governing bodies, i. H. the respective meeting of representatives and the board of directors. These are made up of elected representatives of the profession, i. d. Usually from entrepreneurs, employers and employees. The ongoing administrative business was carried out uniformly for each administrative community by a managing director (director).
This regionally oriented form of organization was up for grabs in 2011. In view of the considerable federal funds that flowed into the system, the profession and politics demanded centralization. At the state level, however, no uniform position had yet been found. There was also the question of whether such a law even required the approval of the states in the Bundesrat . This affected not only insured persons, beneficiaries and contributors, but also the employees and the economic environment of the respective regional organizations (suppliers, service providers, retailers, etc. up to the political influence of the various interest groups within the framework of self-administration that is then no longer regionally possible).
A ministerial draft of the federal government had been available since September 28, 2011 and the government draft of a law to reorganize the organization of agricultural social insurance (LSV-NOG) , which provided for the formation of a federal corporation under public law , in which the individual carriers as well as the central association should be incorporated from January 1, 2013. This integration, which went hand in hand with the dissolution of the previous bodies and the umbrella association, was implemented in a transitional period until December 31, 2017. The new social insurance agency is called Social Insurance for Agriculture, Forestry and Horticulture .
On December 5, 2011, the Federal Council had the bill on the agenda. In particular, he called for regional conditions to be taken into account, for the insured to be looked after on site , for the transition period to be accompanied by legally anchored federal funds and for the socially acceptable protection of employees.
On 2 March 2012 the law without going to had Mediation Committee passed by the Bundesrat and finally on 18 April 2012 at the Federal Law Gazette promulgated ( I, p. 579 ).
The central association of the LSV
The National Association of Agricultural Social Insurance (LSV-SpV), which was newly founded on January 1, 2009 - emerged from the Federal Association of Agricultural Professional Associations (BLB), the General Association of Agricultural Retirement Funds (GLA) and the Federal Association of Agricultural Health Insurance Funds (BLK) - was a federal association Corporate body under public law with self-administration, of which the individual LBGs, LAKen, LKKen and LPKen belonged as members. Each of the administrative communities was represented on the association's board.
The central association's task was to support the individual sponsors in safeguarding their interests and tasks, in particular to ensure uniform application of the law and economical use of funds. Through the law for the modernization of the law of the LSV (LSVMG) he was obliged to carry out further fundamental and cross-sectional tasks, such as B. the information technology, the representation vis-à-vis politics and other national and international social partners, recourse issues etc. The central association was financed through a pay-as-you-go system by the individual regional organizations.
Since January 1, 2013, these tasks have been carried out by the federal authority SVLFG .
Legal basis
The legal assessment of the insurance relationships and the granting of benefits were in the hands of the individual LSV providers. They are still based on special laws. For the agricultural employers' liability insurance associations, these are SGB VII , for the agricultural old-age funds the ALG , for the agricultural health insurance funds the KVLG 1989 and for the (agricultural) care funds the Eleventh Book of the Social Code .
financing
The funds of the LSV are raised through contributions, federal funds and other income. The assessment bases of the various branches of the LSV are different:
- In the accident insurance, the contributions are collected in the form of a retrospective apportionment procedure based on the cultivated types of cultivation, the various forms of cultivation and the size of the area, as well as according to risk criteria
- A standard contribution applies to old-age insurance, which can be reduced through subsidies - depending on income and marital status
- In health insurance, contributions are also calculated on the basis of the cultivated types and size of the area (but without risk factors as in accident insurance) in contribution classes (unlike in general health insurance, in which the contributions are determined according to a contribution rate, also additional contributions or the There will be no social compensation there, which will come into force on January 1, 2011, since the agricultural health insurance as a professionally oriented system is not involved in the health fund). Next are pensions of the statutory pension insurance , pension-type income (so-called. Pensions , for example. B ), and - if, besides retirement and / or pension payment - contributions revenue from an activity other than agriculture self-employment.
- in long-term care insurance through a percentage surcharge on the health insurance contribution as well as percentage contributions from the above-mentioned pensions, pension payments and non-agricultural income from self-employment
In 2009, the LSV spent around 6.2 billion euros. Almost 4 billion of this was raised from tax revenues. The share of federal funds will decline to around 3.7 billion euros in 2010.
Basic and advanced training in the LSV
The task of the umbrella association of agricultural social insurance was also the training and further education of the employees of the association and the insurance carriers. For this purpose, the SVLFG now maintains a training center that primarily ensures comprehensive training and further education for the middle and upper-level non-technical administrative service. The middle administrative service is trained at the SVLFG's administrative seminar. This training is based on the regulations of the "Training Regulations for Social Insurance Specialists" (AOSozV).
Applicants for the senior service complete a 3-year course at the “ Agricultural Social Insurance ” department, one of the departments of the Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration . The focus of the course is the later fields of work in the higher service such as B. the assessment of insurance relationships and benefit claims as well as their financing, but also areas of activity in the general administration of the institution (organization, staff, budget). In addition to subject-specific course content while extensive knowledge in the areas of state and constitutional law , civil law , administrative law , economic policy , economics , business administration , public finance etc. taught. Since the acquisition of knowledge and skills takes place in the dual system , the course extends over several months to both times in the department (theoretical part) and times at the insurance carriers (specialist practical part). Successful completion of the diploma examination leads to the award of the academic degree " Diplomverwaltungswirt / in (FH)". On October 1, 2010, 114 students were studying there (October 1, 2009: 83 students).
The boarding school of the training center has 60 single rooms that are equipped with shower / toilet, TV and WiFi . Up to 160 people can be taught simultaneously in eight lecture halls . In addition, a PC training room and an extensive library are available to learners and teachers .
Together with the group of BG clinics , the LSV publishes the scientific journal “ Trauma and Occupational Disease ”.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ LSV Bundesträger still in this legislative period? ( Memento of May 4, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) on: agrarheute.com October 25, 2010.
- ↑ LSV federal sponsor should be decided by the end of the year. on: topagrar.com March 29, 2011.
- ↑ iva.de ( Memento of the original from October 3, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ The federal government continues to push for a reduction in administrative costs in the LSV. ( Memento of the original from March 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. September 29, 2011.
- ↑ Federal Council: Printed matter 698/1/11
- ^ Act to reorganize the organization of agricultural social insurance (LSV Reorganization Act - LSV-NOG). Retrieved July 15, 2019 .
- ^ Roland Gelbke: Organization and self-administration in the agricultural social insurance . In: Social Security in Agriculture (SDL) . No. 3 , 2007, p. 159 ff . ( lsv.de [PDF; accessed April 10, 2008]).
- ^ Website of the Central Association of Agricultural Social Insurance
- ↑ Federal Law Gazette 2007 I p. 2984, 2986 .
- ↑ Agricultural social policy retains high priority.
- ^ Federal University of Applied Sciences for Public Administration. Agricultural Social Insurance Department.
