Berlin “Around 700 million euros have now been paid out for the corona bonus for employees in geriatric care. The Federal Ministry of Health announced this on request. Around 680 million euros went to care facilities as employers, and another 20 million euros to service companies.
The funds paid out in mid-July should have reached the nursing staff by now, said spokesman for the ministry. Employees should receive the bonus directly from their employers. According to the ministry, there will be second payment date in December.
In total, around 80 percent of Nursing facilities have submitted an application for the corona premium to be financed, as can be seen from the figures from the umbrella association of statutory health insurances outpatient area partly financed by health insurance. The Bundestag passed the bonus in mid-May. The total costs were estimated at one billion euros, the federal government has already announced subsidy to the health insurance companies.
The federal states can increase the corona bonus for employees to up to 1,500 euros, which is tax-free stay. According to the BMG, all countries are making use of this or have at least announced regulation.
It was also announced yesterday that employees in nursing also receive corona premium of up to 1,000 Should receive euros. The statutory health insurance (GKV) provide 100 million euros to pay one-off premiums for up to 100,000 clinic employees. Previously, it was criticized that nurses in clinics were excluded from the corona bonus.
The SPD health politician Karl Lauterbach described the solution now planned as "disappointing and petty", as he told the Augsburger Allgemeine today. He criticized that only part of the 440,000 nurses in German hospitals should receive the nursing bonus. œCompared to what we would otherwise spend on crisis management, it would not have been expensive to give signal of appreciation to the entire care.a
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