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Social insurance group key

 

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What is the Social Insurance Group Key (PGRS)?

The social insurance group key (in German: Personengruppenschlüssel/PGRS) is a three-digit combination of numbers that employers must include on all DEÜV reports for their employees (notifications that the employer sends to the applicable health insurer). The PGRS transmits, to the social insurance carrier, basic data on the type of employment and the employee's social security status.

In the event that several characteristics apply to an employee and their activity, the lowest social insurance group key should be used.

 

Selection of frequently chosen PGRS combinations for employers

Note:
Employees in seafaring and agriculture have their own specific social insurance group keys; these are not explained further in this article.

 

SIGK Group

Definition
101 Regular employees subject to mandatory social security contributions.

Employees who pay contributions to pension and unemployment insurance and have statutory (voluntary) or private health insurance.

This is the default key unless a subordinate key can be assigned.
102 Regular trainees

Persons employed under a traineeship or apprenticeship contract in accordance with the Vocational Training Act who receive more than €325.00 in pay.

Notes:
▶︎ For trainees with a monthly salary of up to €325.00, see social insurance group key 121.
▶︎ Interns do not come under this key, see here the explanations for group keys 105 and 190.
103 Employees in semi-retirement Employees who are employed part-time under the general regulations on partial retirement . 
104 Contractors subject to mandatory pension insurance Self-employed persons who work commercially on behalf of and on account of tradespeople, non-profit companies or public companies at their own premises according to S. 12(1) Social Security Code IV.
105 Interns

Employees who, as regular students, are completing a mandatory pre- or post-internship that is subject to pension insurance. Study or examination regulations from a recognized (technical) university are required. The activity can be carried out with or without remuneration.

Note:
For persons in a mandatory interim internship, see group key 190.
106 Student interns

Students who are enrolled in a regular program of studies, are gainfully employed during their studies and subject to mandatory pension insurance. During the semester, they may not work for more than 20 hours (per week); during the semester break, they may work full-time.
107

Persons with a disability working in a recognized workshop or similar institution.

Employees with physical, mental or psychological disabilities who work in a workshop or other recognized institution under the provisions of the Social Security Code.
108 Recipients of early retirement benefits.

Former employees who continue to receive remuneration from the employer, but declare, as part of an agreement with the employer, that they will be permanently and irrevocably retiring from work until the start of their old-age pension.
109

Persons in marginal employment pursuant to S. 8(1)(1) SGB IV (German Social Security Code).

Employees whose total regular monthly salary is up to €520.00 and who are not trainees or persons doing internships.
110 Short-term employees pursuant to S. 8(1)(2) SGB IV.

 

Employees whose employment is, from the outset, contractually limited to a maximum of 3 months (with 5 days per week) or 70 working days (with less than 5 days per week) per calendar year, and this activity is also not carried out professionally.
111 Persons in youth welfare institutions, vocational training centers or similar institutions for people with a disability. Persons in youth welfare institutions or in vocational training centers for people with a disability who are to be qualified for gainful employment.
  See above note  
117

Persons in irregular employment not related to their occupation.

 Persons subject to mandatory social security contributions who are employed for less than one week in a role not related to their regular occupation.
118

Persons in irregular employment related to their occupation.

 Persons subject to mandatory social security contributions who are employed for less than one week in a role related to their regular occupation.
119

Full-age pensioners and recipients of other age-related pensions who are exempt from mandatory insurance.

 Employees who receive a full old-age pension and remain exempt from pension insurance with continuance under S. 230 (9)(1) SGB VI . 
120

Full-age pensioners and recipients of other age-related pensions who are subject to mandatory social security contributions.

 Employees who receive a full pension and who waive the right of continuance from Section 230 (9)(1) SGB VI.
121

Trainees whose pay does not exceed the low-income earners' limit pursuant to S. 20(3)(1)(1) SGB IV.

Trainees under the Vocational Training Act with an ongoing monthly salary of up to €325.00.

Note:
For other trainees and trainees without pay, see group key 102.
122

Trainees at an external facility.

Trainees with a traineeship or apprenticeship contract in accordance with S.2 (1) (3) BBiG (Vocational Training Act) who are trained by an independent training institution that is not part of a company.
123

Persons completing a voluntary social or environmental year or working in the federal volunteer service.

 Employees who are performing federal volunteer service or are completing a voluntary social or environmental year.
124

Employees who work from home and are not entitled to sick pay.

Employees according to S. 12 (2) SGB IV are persons who are neither integrated into the company nor bound by instructions and who work for a client on their behalf and on their account.

Note:
For home-workers whose monthly payment does not exceed €325.00, see group key 109.
127

Disabled persons employed in an integration project following employment at a recognized workshop.

 Physically or mentally disabled persons and persons with a mental illness who are employed in an integration project following employment in a recognized workshop for the disabled (according Social Security Code IX).
190

Employees who are insured by statutory accident insurance only.

 Employees who are subject to mandatory accident insurance but are otherwise exempt from social security.
900

Employees who are not required to be reported.

Employees who are not subject to mandatory social insurance.

 

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