The Federal Constitutional Court has declared it unconstitutional that the number of children is not taken into account in the contributions to long-term care insurance.
The legislator must now stagger the contributions according to the number of children by July 31 of the coming year.
With the decision announced on Wednesday, the First Senate partially upheld two constitutional complaints.
However, the plaintiffs were unsuccessful in their claim that the number of children should also lead to lower contributions in the pension and health insurance system.
Currently, childless people pay higher contributions to long-term care insurance than parents;
the number of children has not yet been taken into account.
This has now been objected to by the First Senate of the Federal Constitutional Court.
Because that would put "parents with more children at a disadvantage compared to those with fewer children, because the additional child-raising effort that increases with the number of children is not taken into account in the current contribution law," says the justification.
In the pension insurance and health insurance, on the other hand, the educational effort is sufficiently compensated, according to the decision.
In health insurance, all children are insured free of charge.
In the pension insurance, the parent bringing up the child receives up to three additional pension points for each child.
(AZ: 1 BvL 3/18, 1 BvR 717/16 and others)