5000 euros bonus: CSU wants to promote entry into the nursing profession

Tuesday 29 December 2020

5000 euros premium
CSU wants to promote entry into the nursing profession

The corona crisis shows again: There is a shortage of nursing staff in Germany. In order to make starting a career more attractive, the CSU advocates financial incentives. In other areas, too, the CSU regional group is blowing a "new departure" in the Bundestag.

As a consequence of the Corona crisis, the Bundestag CSU wants to campaign for a "newcomer bonus" of 5000 euros for new caregivers. This emerges from a draft resolution for the retreat of the CSU Bundestag members at the beginning of January. Nursing staff will receive the 5000 euros after their training if they continue to work in the nursing profession. In addition, working conditions in nursing should be improved, for example through more health promotion offers. Hospital day-care centers with secured night care are to be funded.

"During the corona pandemic, the medical staff did a great job. Now it is time to give something back," says the CSU paper. With a five billion euro "security surcharge", the CSU also wants to ensure "that the hospitals in the countryside are preserved and that health care is guaranteed at a high level".

Overall, the Bundestag CSU is calling for a "new departure" after the Corona crisis – for example with an improved work-life balance, a strengthening of families, pensions and care. Specifically, the Bundestag CSU is renewing its call for a "parental allowance bonus" to encourage more fathers to take longer parental leave. "If both father and mother take parental leave, the entitlement to parental allowance should increase by a further two months (12 + 4)," says the paper. The limitation to twelve months per parent should continue to apply.

Exam this time in Berlin

The CSU regional group is also renewing its call for greater financial support for childcare. Specifically, childcare costs should be fully tax deductible instead of only two thirds as before. According to the proposed resolution, the maximum amount should increase from 4,000 to 6,000 euros per child and year.

When it comes to maintenance, the Bundestag CSU calls for a "co-payment cap". "Specifically, the personal contribution for care in the home should be capped at a maximum of 700 euros per month," says the draft resolution. "Good and affordable care is one of the greatest social challenges of our time. We therefore want to effectively limit the amount of personal care that individuals have to provide."

When it comes to pensions, the CSU reiterates its call for a "starter kit" for old-age provision. To this end, the state should pay 100 euros per month for each child from birth to 18 years of age into a generational pension fund. The money should then be paid out later in addition to existing pension entitlements. When it comes to taxes, the CSU regional group wants to supplement the splitting of spouses with "advantage splitting". The aim is to enable "both spouses to benefit equally from the tax advantage", while the tax advantages are to be "equally halved for both partners on a monthly basis," says the paper.

Unlike usual, the CSU members of the Bundestag do not meet this time in the Seeon Monastery (or earlier in Wildbad Kreuth) in Upper Bavaria because of the Corona crisis. The venue this time is Berlin.