Your sickness benefit amounts to 70 per cent of your last contributory salary but may not exceed 90 per cent of your net salary. Read on to find out which payments are taken into account and the maximum amount of sickness benefit payable per calendar day.
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Did you receive one-off payments such as Christmas or holiday bonuses during the twelve months before you became unfit for work? If so, we will take these payments into account when we calculate your sickness benefit.
Your sickness benefit can be up to 120,75 Euro (2024) per calendar day. As with your salary, you may have to pay statutory social insurance contributions from this sum, i.e. for statutory pension, long-term care and unemployment insurance. However, you will not have to pay health insurance contributions.
Use our sickness benefit calculator (available in German language) to work out how much sickness benefit you are entitled to.
New long-term care contributions affect your sickness benefit
If you have to pay long-term care insurance contributions, the higher contributions to long-term care insurance that came into effect in July 2023 will also have an impact on the amount of sickness benefit you receive.
However, the care reform also introduced deductions from long-term care insurance contribution for insurees with more than one child. For this, we need proof from you concerning the number of children you have. Please do not send us any details of the number of children you have at present. We will get in touch with you in due course and change your contribution rate, of course also retrospectively.