3000 euros, tax-free
Chancellor and ministers are to receive an inflation premium
6/11/2023 2:52 am
The Federal Chancellor and his ministers are also state employees – and so they should also benefit from the latest collective bargaining agreement for the public sector. You now have an inflation bonus of 3000 euros.
According to a media report, Chancellor Olaf Scholz and his 16 ministers are to receive a tax-free inflation premium of 3,000 euros according to a draft law. “To mitigate the consequences of the increased consumer prices, members of the federal government will be granted a one-off special payment of 1,240 euros for June and a special payment of 220 euros per month for the months of July 2023 to February 2024,” according to a report by “Bild am Sonntag”. the draft law from the Federal Ministry of the Interior.
According to the report, the regulation takes on a one-to-one agreement on the collective bargaining agreement in the public sector for the federal and local governments. The draft law from the Federal Ministry of the Interior not only provides for the transfer of the collective agreement to civil servants, judges, soldiers and pensioners, but also to cabinet members, the newspaper continues. For this, the ministerial law must be amended accordingly.
The draft law is in the departmental vote and has “not yet been politically discussed,” the Interior Ministry told the “Bild am Sonntag”. The taxpayers’ association criticized the project and called on the government to abandon it. “There is still no federal budget for next year because not enough is being saved. And now the ministers are getting the inflation premium? Absolutely the wrong signal,” said President Reiner Holznagel of “Bild am Sonntag”. “Here the chancellor and the cabinet members should set an example and do without!”