Six years after its introduction, the rule shielding adult children of care recipients from high costs is up for debate. Health Minister Nina Warken (CDU) has proposed a nursing care reform that would eliminate the 100,000-euro gross annual income threshold. The move is intended to relieve municipalities of rising social welfare costs.
The government’s care commissioner, Katrin Staffler (CSU), opposes a complete abolition. “I would consider it wrong to completely scrap the limit again,” she told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (RND). Instead, she advocates for a “fair distribution of burdens” and wants to negotiate the appropriate level of exempt income. She did not specify a concrete figure.
Staffler also called on Finance Minister Lars Klingbeil (SPD) to present a reform of private long-term care insurance. “The current ‘Pflege-Bahr’ is a flop,” she said. The current subsidy amounts to a maximum of five euros per month. At the same time, she defended the reform plans: “In the next two years alone, more than 20 billion euros must be saved to keep the nursing care insurance fund operational.”
EuroPulse reported on June 15, 2026, about the pension reform and the existential question for the coalition, Pension reform: Seniors’ Union sees existential question for the coalition.
Source: www.tagesspiegel.de
