Social contributions

The Künstlersozialkasse (KSK) can only pay you the correct subsidy if it knows how high your contributions for private or voluntary statutory health and long-term care insurance are. You should therefore inform the KSK of any changes to your contributions.

The Künstlersozialkasse will advise you on all questions relating to artists' social insurance.

You can apply for a new social security card if you have lost it, it has been damaged or is no longer legible.

If you have paid more than 2 percent of your gross family income as statutory co-payments in the current calendar year, you can be exempted from this for the rest of the year. For the chronically ill, the so-called burden limit is 1 percent.

If, according to the registration, there is a certain relationship between you and your employer or if you are a managing partner, the procedure to clarify your employment status with the clearing office is automatically initiated.

If you as an insured person are in arrears with your contribution payments, you can agree a new payment term with the Künstlersozialkasse.

If you want to check whether you are self-employed or employed, you can submit an application to determine your employment status.

Enforcement against you can be temporarily suspended or restricted if there are equitable grounds. Inequity exists if enforcement would cause you an unreasonable disadvantage that can be avoided by waiting a short time.

If you become subject to compulsory statutory health insurance, you can be exempted in certain cases. You can apply to your statutory health insurance fund.

Have you missed a statutory deadline for an application or notification? Then, under certain conditions, you can make up the missed deadline without any disadvantages.

If you, as an insured person in the artists' social insurance scheme, have a question or concern in connection with your compulsory insurance, you can contact the Künstlersozialkasse.

If you need information on artists' social insurance, you can take part in an information event under certain conditions.

Has your professional situation changed in such a way that you expect a different income from your self-employed artistic or journalistic work? Then you need to adjust your income estimate with the Artists' Social Insurance Fund.

Grants that you receive from the Artists' Social Security Fund are finally settled in the following year.

If you change the legal form of your activity or the activity itself, this may have an impact on your insurance obligation with the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK).

If you have statutory health and long-term care insurance through the Künstlersozialkasse, you can change your health insurance fund under certain conditions.

If you are not only self-employed as an artist or journalist but also carry out other activities or receive social benefits, you must report this to the Künstlersozialkasse.

If your personal data changes, you must inform the Künstlersozialkasse. You should also inform the Künstlersozialkasse if your contact details change or expand.

If your self-employed artistic or journalistic activity has changed in such a way that you no longer carry it out on a professional or do you employ several people? ? Then you can no longer be insured through the artists' social insurance fund.

If you stay or work abroad for a longer period of time, this may affect your German social insurance. You must notify the Künstlersozialkasse of any change in your situation in good time.

If you are unable to work due to illness or pregnancy and receive compensation from another source, you do not have to pay social security contributions via the Artists' Social Security Fund.

As a self-employed artist or journalist, you can be compulsorily insured under certain conditions.

If you are insured through the artists' social security fund, you must submit an annual income estimate.

Do you receive a pension from the statutory pension insurance scheme? Then this will affect your insurance status in the artists' social insurance scheme.

If you are subject to compulsory insurance or entitled to a subsidy via the artists' social security fund, you will receive proof of your insurance for each year.

If you are insured through the Künstlersozialkasse, you can prove your insurance status with a current confirmation of insurance.

If you are insured through the Künstlersozialkasse (KSK), you can obtain information about your compulsory insurance and your contribution account from the Künstlersozialkasse at any time. To do this, you must send a request to the KSK.

If it turns out that a decision by the Künstlersozialkasse is incorrect, it will revoke it under certain conditions.

If there are indications of changes, the Künstlersozialkasse can review your artistic or publishing activities and your income.

If you are insured with the Künstlersozialkasse or are entitled to a subsidy, your income can be checked in an annual random sample.

As a newcomer to the profession, have you not earned the minimum income in the first three years of your work? Then you must prove to the Künstlersozialkasse that you are gainfully employed.

If you do not pay your contributions to the artists' social security fund regularly, you will have to pay for your medical treatment yourself.