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The application deadline for the hardship fund to alleviate low pensions for former GDR citizens, repatriates and Jewish quota refugees ends on September 30th. An overview.
Berlin – An important deadline for hundreds of thousands of pensioners ends in September: The deadline for the hardship fund is September 30, 2023 to alleviate low pensions for former GDR citizens, late repatriates and Jewish quota refugees. The most important questions and answers.
Which pensioners are entitled to money from the hardship fund?
The fund, which was approved by the government last year, is intended to alleviate cases of hardship among late repatriates, Eastern pensioners and Jewish immigrants. Overall, according to rough estimates, there are around 200,000 eligible applicants for the Hardship Fund Foundation, a spokeswoman for the Federal Ministry of Labor told the Evangelical Press Service in Berlin on Thursday.
Specifically, pensioners who have less than 830 euros net in statutory income on January 1, 2021 will receive the one-off payment The interest rate (after deducting contributions to health and nursing care insurance) AND either late repatriates (§ 4 Federal Expellees Act) or Jewish quota refugees or their relatives from the former Soviet Union or pensioners from the East-West pension transition.
These include, for example, ballet dancers who were promised a so-called “ballet pension” by the GDR, as well as people who worked for the Deutsche Reichsbahn, the Deutsche Post or in the health and social services in the former GDR.
Does an application have to be submitted?
The benefit from the hardship fund will only be paid upon application, which can be submitted until September 30, 2023. The application forms can be found on the Information portal for the Hardship Fund Foundation. You can also request the relevant application form from the Foundation’s office by post (postal address: Office of the Hardship Fund Foundation, 44781 Bochum). The payment of the benefit began – depending on when the application was submitted – at the end of June 2023.
How much money do eligible pensioners receive?
Those entitled receive a flat-rate one-off payment of 2,500 euros. A benefit of 5,000 euros is possible for people who were resident in a federal state that joined the foundation at the time the foundation was founded on March 7, 2023. These include Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, Bremen, Hamburg and Thuringia. The state of Berlin has declared its intention to join.
Do you have to pay taxes for the one-time payment?
Those entitled don’t have to worry: the one-off payment is neither taken into account as income for income-related social benefits nor is it counted as an asset, reports gegen-hartz.de. This means that the payment is tax-free and cannot be seized.
With material from the epd
2023-09-17 21:49:26
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