Claim reimbursement of social security contributions as a supplementary benefit to seasonal short-time allowance

You can apply for reimbursement of social security contributions for recipients of seasonal short-time allowance in writing or online.

If you want to apply for the benefit in writing:

• You calculate the remuneration and the seasonal short-time allowance.
• You pay the remuneration and the seasonal short-time allowance to your employees and pay social security contributions.
• You apply for reimbursement of the social security contributions monthly in arrears to the relevant department of the Employment Agency (application for seasonal short-time allowance and payroll list).
• The Employment Agency will check the application and the payroll list. If your application is approved, you will be reimbursed for the social security contributions.
• After the end of the bad weather period, the Employment Agency will check the submitted payrolls as part of a final audit and, if necessary, correct the approved benefits.

If you want to apply for the benefit online:

• Access the "eServices" portal on the Federal Employment Agency's website.
• Log in with your user ID and access the application for seasonal short-time allowance.
• Fill out the application, upload the payroll list and send the application.
• The Employment Agency will review your application and documentation. You will receive a decision on your application from the Employment Agency.
• The remaining procedural steps correspond to the written procedure.

You can apply for reimbursement of social insurance for employees who receive seasonal short-time allowance. You are also only entitled to the benefit for employees whose employment cannot be terminated for weather-related reasons during the bad weather period.

Your company must also

• belong to the building trade, scaffolding trade, roofing trade or gardening and landscaping trade, and
• employ at least 1 employee and
• have previously paid in the funds for the reimbursement of social security contributions in the form of a levy for these purposes.

• Application for seasonal short-time allowance (S-Kug) and supplementary benefits
• Settlement List for Seasonal Short-Time Allowance (S-Kug) and Supplementary Benefits - Attachment to Application for Benefits

• § 102 Sozialgesetzbuch Drittes Buch (SGB III)

• Objection
• Action before the social court

Forms available: Yes
Written form required: Yes
Informal application possible: No
Personal appearance required: No
Online services available: Yes

In the event of extraordinary developments on the labor market (such as those resulting from the spread of the coronavirus), the federal government or the Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs may temporarily adjust the regulations on short-time allowance by decree.

The text was automatically translated based on the German content.