
Official back payment: Who gets how much – who goes empty?
Home Economy Status: 13.08.2026, 18:05 Comments Follow us on Google The Federal Constitutional Court is forcing countries to make billions in back payments..
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Hamburg introduces an annual special payment of 27 percent of a monthly salary, Bremen increases the salary retroactively by 2.5 percent (cost: 120 million). Thuringia will pay 4.8 percent more from 2026, but only to those 15,000 civil servants who complained – otherwise a further 400 million would be due instead of 166 million.
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Hamburg introduces an annual special payment of 27 percent of a monthly salary, Bremen increases the salary retroactively by 2.5 percent (cost: 120 million).
according to Frankfurter Rundschau +1Thuringia will pay 4.8 percent more from 2026, but only to those 15,000 civil servants who complained – otherwise a further 400 million would be due instead of 166 million.
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