Source: Government Information Service Published 31/01/2023 Here is what changes from this Wednesday, February 1, 2023. Extension of the tariff shield on electricity The extension in 2023 of the tariff shield includes, from February 1, a limited increase in electricity tariffs of 15% for households, small businesses and small municipalities. Increase in the rate of booklet A As announced by the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industrial and Digital Sovereignty, Bruno Le Maire, the passbook A rate goes from 2...
In the past 25 years, insurance associations have massively expanded their market share at the expense of stock corporations. source site
Men who have been insured for at least 35 years receive a pension of around 1,500 euros. In women it is less. The maximum that can be given. With the statutory pension alone, retirees cannot afford too much. According to the Deutsche Rentenversicherung (DRV), in 2021 men who had at least 35 years of insurance when they retired received an old-age pension averaging a gross nationwide amount of 1,637 euros per month. If you deduct the contribution for the health...
Status: 01/26/2023 3:20 p.m In 2023, the insurance industry will turn the price screw. Many auto insurers will increase their rates. Private health insurance and homeowners insurance are also likely to become more expensive. The high rates of inflation are also leaving their mark on the German insurance industry. For example, rising spare parts prices and workshop costs lead to higher claims expenditure, said the President of the General Association of the German Insurance Industry (GDV), Norbert Rollinger, with a...
As usual, the new measures at the beginning of the month will have repercussions on your portfolio. Good news: some of them are related to the protection of the purchasing power of the French. On the menu for this month of February: an increase in the booklet A, an extension of the tariff shield, an increase in the ceiling of MaPrimeRénov'... But there is also less encouraging news, such as motorway tariffs which are inflating, or even a reduction in...
Status: 01/23/2023 08:57 a.m Are Life Insurance Costs Too High? According to the financial supervisory authority BaFin, the high sales costs for life insurers are particularly striking. The financial regulator BaFin wants to put a stop to excessive costs for life insurance. "High costs do not always mean an appropriately increased return," said Germany's top insurance supervisor, Frank Grund. "We have enough examples that there is no clear correlation between high costs and high returns." The interest on the classic...
The Bavarian Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians (KVB) will continue to have a general practitioner at its head in the future. The association's assembly of representatives on Saturday in Munich elected general practitioner Christian Pfeiffer as chairman of the board by a large majority. The 55-year-old family doctor from Giebelstadt in the Würzburg district announced that he wanted to work to ensure that work in practices remained attractive. More needs to be done to prevent a doctor shortage.The Association...
As of: 01/18/2023 3:33 p.m If a company was forced to close temporarily due to the corona lockdown: does the insurance then pay? Under certain circumstances, says the Federal Court of Justice. By Gigi Deppe, ARD legal department It was bitter for hotels or restaurants that they sometimes had to close for weeks because of Corona. Some had taken out what is known as “business closure insurance” for such cases, so that they would receive money if, for example, guests...
“I already have a lot of financial burdens, but I want to live in Paris! Pauline, 25, chats with the mayor of Paris, Anne Hidalgo, who encourages her. This young 25-year-old entrepreneur is about to take out her first home insurance in her own name (before, she was on her parents' contract), and she is "proud", she says, to finally acquire her complete autonomy. , with a contract of a fairly new kind, proposed by the City of Paris.The goal...
If the shortages remain minimal for the moment, some French people still filled up on precautions this weekend in view of the social movement against the pension reform this Thursday.Some 3.75% of French service stations ran out of either petrol or diesel on Monday morning, according to public data analyzed by AFP, with the oil sector citing precautionary fill-ups before the strike against pension reform , repeating that stocks are full. These figures remain far from the more than 40%...
