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Members of the Bundestag Act (Laws / Regulations of Germany)
Part Six
Subsidisation of costs in the event of illness, nursing care and births; assistance
Section 27
Subsidisation of costs in the event of illness, nursing care and births
(1) Members of the Bundestag shall receive a grant towards necessary costs incurred as a result of illness, nursing care and births in application, mutatis mutandis, of the provisions applicable to federal civil servants. This shall also apply to recipients of pensions awarded under this Act, provided that they do not have a right to claim assistance on the basis of a contract of employment or membership of another legislative body and that the right to make such a claim against the Bundestag under this Act has not been waived in writing.
(2) Instead of the entitlement to a grant under subsection (1) above, Members and recipients of pensions shall receive a subsidy towards their health-insurance contributions if their employer does not make contributions pursuant to Section 249 of the Fifth Book of the Social Code or if there is no entitlement to a contribution subsidy under section 257 of the Fifth Book of the Social Code. Members of the statutory health-insurance scheme who receive a pension from the statutory pensions scheme and who either pay only half of the health-insurance contribution pursuant to section 249a of the Fifth Book of the Social Code or who receive a contribution subsidy pursuant to section 106 of the Sixth Book of the Social Code shall not receive a subsidy towards this pension-related health-insurance contribution. The subsidy shall be half of the health-insurance contribution paid from the individual’s own means, by analogy with section 249 of the Fifth Book of the Social Code. For those not insured exclusively by a statutory health-insurance fund as defined in section 4 of the Fifth Book of the Social Code, the maximum amount of the subsidy shall be half of the amount specified in section 249 of the Fifth Book of the Social Code.
(3) The entitlement to the subsidy towards health-insurance contributions under subsection (2) above shall include, for Members of the Bundestag, entitlement to a sunsidy amounting to half of the contributions to private nursing-care insurance paid from an individual’s own means or half of the maximum contribution to the state nursing-care insurance scheme, whichever is the lesser. The subsidy shall not include the contribution supplement for childless persons prescribed by section 55 of the Eleventh Book of the Social Code.
(4) The decision as to whether the Member wishes to claim the subsidy under subsection (2) above instead of the benefits under subsection (1) must be notified to the President of the Bundestag within four months from the date on which the election result was established by the Federal Electoral Committee (first sentence of section 42(2) of the Federal Electoral Act (Bundeswahlgesetz)), or on which a permanent civil servant accepted his or her mandate; the decision shall be irrevocable for the duration of the electoral term. Recipients of pensions must inform the President of their decision within four months of delivery of the notice of pension award; they shall remain bound by their decision.
Section 28
Assistance
In special cases, the President may grant assistance in the form of a single lump sum to a Member of the Bundestag and assistance in the form of a single lump sum or a regular maintenance allowance to a former Member and his or her surviving dependants.
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