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Apply for miners' compensation benefit (KAL) for miners

Source: BUS Rheinland-Pfalz

KAL helps older miners who are affected by the difficult labor market situation until the start of their old-age pension. You will receive the KAL until you switch to another pension and at most until you reach the standard retirement age.

The amount of your KAL is calculated in the same way as the full reduced earning capacity pension. However, there are the following special features:

  • Only your entitlements from the miners' pension insurance are taken into account. If you have acquired other entitlements in the general pension insurance scheme, for example through work outside the mining industry, these will not be taken into account. The contributions you pay to the general pension insurance scheme will only be taken into account when you receive your pension at a later date, for example when you receive your old-age pension.
  • Supplements for permanent underground work are also not taken into account.
  • In contrast to the calculation of a pension due to reduced earning capacity, the KAL does not include a supplementary period.

Your KAL pension is therefore only calculated on the basis of the portion of your entitlement from the miners' pension insurance.

If you receive KAL, it is advantageous for you to receive your old-age pension at the earliest possible date. In contrast to KAL, you will then also receive

  • the benefit supplement for permanent underground work and entitlements
  • entitlements from the general pension insurance will be taken into account.

The time during which you receive KAL will be taken into account as a credit period in your pension. As a result, you will receive more pension later. The following old-age pensions are possible after a KAL:

  • the old-age pension for miners who worked underground for many years,
  • the old-age pension for severely disabled people,
  • the old-age pension for long-term insured persons,
  • the standard old-age pension or
  • the old-age pension for particularly long-term insured persons

Which old-age pension you are eligible for after KAL depends on which eligibility criteria you meet. Your Knappschaft-Bahn-See pension insurance fund will advise you on this.

If you receive the KAL, you may only earn a limited amount of additional income. Partial payment, as with old-age pensions, is excluded. You cannot receive unemployment benefit I or unemployment benefit II during this period.

If you take up employment again in a company with a low pension scheme, you can no longer receive KAL. This applies regardless of how much you earn.

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