Social security surplus will cheer Merkel

Germany's Federal Statistical Office reported 10 October 2006 that the provisional results of cash statistics indicate that the statutory social insurance funds – comprising statutory health, long-term nursing care, accident, and pension insurance, the farmers’ old-age assistance scheme and services of the Federal Employment Agency – achieved a surplus of€8.5 billion in the first half of 2006. In the first half of 2005, the social insurance funds recorded a deficit of €7.1 billion.

Germany: Federal Statistics Office: Press Release, 10.10.06: Statutory social insurance funds achieving surplus of EUR 8.5 billion https://www.destatis.de/EN/PressServices/Press/pr/PressReleases.html

Germany: Federal Sttaitsics Office: Social security schemes https://www.destatis.de/EN/Publications/Publications.html

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