Count child-rearing years toward pensioners' health coverage
The AfD wants child-rearing periods to count toward the prior insurance time required to stay in statutory health insurance in retirement. Parents, especially mothers, would then not have to switch to more expensive private coverage. Training is also meant to ease mothers' return to their former jobs.
Some mothers do not work for years because they raise children. As retirees they often must switch to costly private health insurance. The AfD wants to change that. Time spent raising children should count.
The platform explains that only people who had statutory health insurance for at least 18 of the 20 years before retirement can stay in the statutory system. According to the AfD, women who have children late and return to work only in their late forties often fail this test. The party calls this an extra disadvantage for people who already have lower pension entitlements. It also wants training when workplaces have changed, coordinated between employers and staff, so mothers can return to their previous work more easily.
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„Wir wollen diesen Missstand umgehend ändern und Kindererziehungszeiten bei der Berechnung der Vorversicherung entsprechend anrechnen.“Translation: We want to change this grievance immediately and count child-rearing periods accordingly when calculating the prior insurance period.
Placement
- Economyleaning more state
Access to statutory health insurance for retirees is widened for parents who raised children, expanding a public benefit.
- Societyleaning conservative
The rule is meant to protect longer periods of child-rearing at home, giving more weight to the model of the stay-at-home mother.