Supplementary pension fund

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Supplementary pension funds are carriers of additional supply of public services (ZÖD), a supplementary measure, the retirement employee of the public service . They are public bodies. The most common legal forms are corporations or institutions under public law . Specifically, the supplementary pension funds - at least according to North Rhine-Westphalian law (cf. §§ 10 and 16 VKZVKG NRW) - are legally dependent, non-legally capable special funds or business areas of the pension funds managed in the aforementioned organizational forms , which in turn on behalf of their members for the processing of civil servant benefits are responsible.

Target groups

The largest supplementary pension fund in the Federal Republic of Germany is the federal and state pension fund . It insures the employees of the Federal Republic and the individual federal states.

For the employees of the German municipalities and their institutions there are 17 municipal supply institutions, which are partly responsible as regional funds for all municipalities in a certain catchment area, partly for the employees of a single city.

There are four supplementary pension funds for employees of church institutions, three for different areas of the Evangelical Church in Germany and one for the Catholic Church in Germany .

There are also two institutions for employees of savings banks .

membership

Supplementary pension funds carry out the company pension scheme on behalf of the affiliated employers. These employers are referred to as members or participants depending on the fund. They are both customers and guarantors of the pension fund. The prerequisite for membership of an employer is the binding commitment of the corresponding pension scheme for all employees, usually by means of a collective agreement .

List of supplementary pension funds

  • Savings banks
    • Emder supplementary pension fund for savings banks
    • Additional pension fund of the Landesbank Baden-Württemberg

Working group

The 24 German supplementary pension funds of the municipal and church service as well as the two savings bank institutions cooperate in the Arbeitsgemeinschaft Kommunale und Kirche Altersversorgung (AKA) e. V.

literature

  • Boeddinghaus, Rütger: Pension scheme at the VBL - collective bargaining autonomy as a savior in the event of restructuring? in "The Staff Council" 2008, pages 401–406

Individual evidence

  1. Evangelical Church in Germany: Church pension funds go together. July 1, 2016, accessed March 17, 2017 .