Nursing contribution increases: Lauterbach warns of the financial crisis of care

Nursing contribution increases: Lauterbach warns of the financial crisis of care

shock for all nursing insured! Federal Minister of Health Karl Lauterbach announced a drastic increase in the care contribution on Friday, November 8th. From January 1, 2025, the contribution rate will increase by 0.2 percentage points to 3.6 percent of gross wages. It gets even more expensive for childless insured persons: their contribution rate climbs to 4.2 percent. Lauterbach emphasizes that this measure is "immediately and urgently necessary" in order to avert the impending financial difficulties of long -term care insurance.

nursing insurance in the crisis: Lauterbach raises the alarm!

The long -term care insurance faces a financial disaster! A minus of 1.5 billion euros will be predicted for 2024, and for 2025 the deficit could even increase to 3.4 billion euros. These alarming numbers force Lauterbach to prevent the bankruptcy funds. As early as July 2023, the contribution for people without children was increased to 4 percent, and now the next increase follows. The traffic light coalition had hoped to stabilize the nursing finances by 2025, but the increasing costs make the project in the sake of the project.

In a heated statement, the SPD of the FDP blames the failure of the care reform. Heike Baehrens, health policy spokeswoman for the SPD parliamentary group, criticizes that non-insurance benefits such as the pension contributions of the nurses are not financed from tax funds, as agreed in the coalition agreement. Lauterbach warns that without a comprehensive nursing reform, the own shares for those in need of care could increase. "We have to look for new solutions," said the minister, who emphasizes the urgency of a reform so as not to let the time pass.