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Old Age Pension Scheme for Attorneys

Berufsständische Versorgung der Rechtsanwälte

1 Attorneys are the only group among the liberal professions whose pensions are exclusively granted by special funds of their professional chambers. Basic insurance of all other liberal professions (except notaries who have their own scheme; see old age pension scheme for notaries) is secured by the statutory pension scheme for the self-employed. For medical doctors the ‘berufsständische Versorgung’ within the ‘welfare fund’ of their professional chambers is supplementary to statutory pension insurance.

2 However, the government pays lump-sum contributions for free procedural assistance by lawyers, which are used to finance the pension scheme.

Legal Basis: Lawyers‘ Act (Rechtsanwaltsordnung); Statutes of the Bar Associations (Satzungen der Rechtsanwaltskammern); Income Tax Act (Einkommensteuergesetz 1988).