The artist social security (KSV) is part of the legal social security.

Legal basis is the law over the social security of the independent artists and journalist (artist social security law - KSVG) from 27 July 1981 (BGBl. I P. 705), which for the first time includes the independent artists and journalists pflichtweise to 1 January 1983 in the legal ill, maintaining and old age pension insurance, as far as they obtain a minimum income from this acquisition-moderate and only temporarily not exercised activity, employ no more than one employee and not otherwise are released from the liability to insure. Also sideline artists, who refer their predominant income from other one principal activity, are excluded. Artist is, who creates or teaches music, representing or screen end art; Journalist is, who as a writer, journalist is active or in other way journalistic or journalism teaches.

The achievements from the KSV are furnished by the respective insurers (health insurance companies, Federal Social Insurance Institution for employees) after the respective right of the legal pension and/or ill and nursing care insurance.

For the insurance assessment and collection of contributions the artist social insurance is responsible. The artist social insurance is a dependent, however a household and fortune moderate separated mechanism, which is in integrated as special department into the accident cash of the federation. Seat of the artist social insurance and the accident cash of the federation are Wilhelmshaven.

A substantial characteristic opposite other independent ones included into the social security exists in the kind of the financing of the KSV: The financial requirement is applied (only) to the half from contributions of the insured ones; "the worth carry the other contribution half "from artistic achievements in form of the overall put down "artist social security contribution "(which amounts to at present 5.5% of all incomes of an artist), together with a subsidy of the federation. The constitutionality of this financing construction singular in the social security confirmed the Federal Constitutional Court in its resolution from 8 April 1987.

Literature

• Andri Councellor artist social security, 2002, publishing house C.H. Beck, 10 "€
• Andri Practice manual artist social security contribution, 2004, XX, 169 sides, Hardcover, large size, publishing house art media right, 45 "€
• G. Artist social security law. Comment, Starnberg Percha (lot sheet)
• H. Finke et al.: Artist social security law. Comment, 3. Edition, Munich 2003
• A. Wernicke: The organization of the artist social security. Berlin 1995
• R. Ziebeil: Artist social security law. Sank Augustin 1988.

Related links

• http://www.kuenstlersozialkasse.de/ Website of the artist social insurance
• KSVG law over the social security of the independent artists and journalist
• http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/61706 judgement: Web designers may into the artist social insurance
• http://www.verband-freier-medienberufe.de/ country wide info. meetings to the artist social insurance
• http://www.kuenstlersozialversicherung.info/ "as I come - Which costs concrete assistance and consultation
• http://www.kunstrecht.de the forum to the artist social insurance with current judgements and information
• http://www.kskforum.de artist and your experiences with the artist social insurance
• Pure hard Jellen: '' Warning of the 'all-clear' signal - why concerns of the insured ones because of possible reforms with the artist social insurance justified are '' Telepolis 10 December 2004

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