Maintenance Security Act
| Basic data | |
|---|---|
| Title: | Law on the maintenance of reservist service providers |
| Short title: | Maintenance Security Act |
| Previous title: | Act on Securing the Maintenance of Relatives of Conscripts Called Up for Military Service, Act on Securing the Maintenance of Conscripts and Their Relatives Called Up for Military Service, Act on Services for Reservists and Securing the Maintenance of Relatives of Voluntary Military Service |
| Abbreviation: | USG |
| Type: | Federal law |
| Scope: | Federal Republic of Germany |
| Legal matter: | Defense law , maintenance law |
| References : | 53-3, new: 53-8 |
| Original version from: | July 26, 1957 ( BGBl. I p. 1046 ) |
| Entry into force on: | April 1, 1957 |
| Last revision from: | Art. 22 G of August 4, 2019 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1147, 1179 ) |
| Entry into force of the new version on: |
January 1, 2020 (Art. 34 G of August 4, 2019) |
| Last change by: |
Art. 21 G of 4 August 2019 ( Federal Law Gazette I p. 1147, 1176 ) |
| Effective date of the last change: |
September 1, 2019 (Art. 34 G of August 4, 2019) |
| GESTA : | H002 |
| Please note the note on the applicable legal version. | |
The Maintenance Assurance Act (USG) in Germany regulates the financial security of reservists doing military service .
history
The Maintenance Security Act was created in 1957 and revised in 1980. Due to fundamental changes in the Bundeswehr in recent decades, including the reorientation of the Bundeswehr with the suspension of compulsory military service , the law was revised on June 29, 2015. The goals of the new version included:
- to transfer the processing of applications for maintenance security from the municipalities to the federal government ( Federal Office for Personnel Management of the Bundeswehr ) and to centralize them there,
- to increase the minimum benefit for reservist service providers so that they correspond to the net pay of active soldiers of the same rank and
- to ensure equality between legitimate and illegitimate children of voluntary military service .
Services
Reservists can acc. Chapter 2 receive the following benefits:
- § 5 Benefits for non-self-employed (reimbursement of a proven loss of earnings)
- § 6 Benefits for the self-employed (reimbursement of an assumed loss of earnings on the basis of the last tax return as well as maintenance costs of the business premises)
- § 8 minimum performance (flat-rate daily rate alternatively instead of benefits according to § 5 or § 6)
- § 9 Benefits for pension recipients (difference between the last net salary and the current net pension salary)
- § 11 Premium (daily premium for reservist duty every day)
- Section 14 Service allowance (second daily bonus for a weekend / holiday reservist service in addition to and in the amount of the premium according to Section 11)
- § 12 Surcharge for longer service (daily rate for particularly frequent or long-serving reservists from the 15th day of military service per year)
- Section 13 Surcharge for the obligation to longer service (instead of the surcharge according to Section 12 from the 1st day of military service in the year, if at least 33 days of military service were committed in the year)
Sections 15–19 regulate the surcharges for special functions or burdens, while Sections 20–23 regulate free accommodation, uniforms, equipment and medical care as well as catering for reservists.
