According to the insurers, the financing requirement for short-term stabilization alone in the current year is at least 4.5 billion euros. The contributors should not be solely responsible for this.
The statutory health and long-term care insurance funds and the large social organizations have called on the federal government to quickly compensate for the high deficits in long-term care insurance with billions of euros in taxes. The financing required for short-term stabilization alone in the current year amounts to at least 4.5 billion euros, according to a letter that the newspapers of the editorial network Germany have received according to the preliminary report.
“We therefore urge you to quickly stabilize the financing of social long-term care insurance through federal funds so that the necessary securing of liquidity is not exclusively at the expense of the contributors,” says the letter to Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Finance Minister Christian Lindner, which Associations of statutory health and long-term care insurance funds at federal level, several social organizations and the federal working group for non-statutory welfare.
In 2022, the statutory long-term care insurance recorded a deficit of 2.25 billion euros. Another deficit of three billion euros is expected for the current year. The main cost drivers are the growing number of people in need of care and the increasing expenses, among other things due to the statutory payment of nursing staff according to tariffs. In addition, the federal government has not yet reimbursed the additional costs caused by the corona pandemic totaling 5.5 billion euros.