Employees of all Jewish organizations in Prussia will from now on receive old age pensions as the result of an agreement entered into between the Federation of Jewish Communities in Prussia and the Leipzig Insurance Company.
The Federation paid the insurance company 20,000 marks to facilitate the initial stages of the scheme and to lower insurance premiums.
According to the contract Jewish community employees are to receive their old age pensions on the same basis as State workers. Pensions are to increase automatically with added years of service.
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