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billion deficit in the statutory social

The compulsory social security has experienced in the first nine months of 2010, a cash-moderate deficit of 3.9 billion euros, as the Federal Statistical Office (Destatis) is now announced. In statutory care and health insurance, there was a small surplus in each case, whereas had the statutory pension insurance and the Federal Employment Agency, a multibillion dollar deficit.

increased in the first three quarters of 2010, the revenue of the statutory social security by 5.0 percent to nearly € 377 billion. Spending rose slightly by 1.4 percent to just over 380 billion euros. Compared to the same period, the deficit between January September 2010 and decreased by 12.8 billion euros to 3.9 billion euros.

The main reason for the decline Destatis leads to the lower deficit of the Federal Employment Agency, which decreased by 13.3 billion euros to 2.5 billion euros. To statutory social security are the statutory health, care, accident and pension insurance, pensions for farmers and the Federal Agency for Employment (including pension funds).

zero-sum game in the long-term care

In the statutory health insurance (SHI) increased revenue, including the higher federal funding of the health fund 11.8 billion euros, up 3.4 percent to € 132.6 billion, while spending increased by 3.6 percent to 131.5 billion euros. The surplus declined to 0.3 billion euros to 1.1 billion euros.

held in the mandatory insurance, the revenue and expenditure of 16 billion euros in the balance after it had been in the same period of last year still a surplus of 0.6 billion euros. Spending rose by six percent to almost three times as much as the revenue of 2.3 percent.

pensions in negative territory

The revenues of the statutory pension insurance increased year on year by 2.2 percent to 183 billion euros. Spending rose by 2.1 percent to € 185.7 billion, resulting in a deficit of 2.7 billion euros. The minus is compared with the first nine months of 2009 by 0.2 billion € have become smaller.

The Federal Statistical Office points out that using data from the first three quarters because of the strong in-year fluctuations in revenues and expenditures no conclusions could be drawn on the annual results.