The German Ministry of Interior has announced the opening here of an office to process the applications for pension of former communal employees of German Jewish communities. The office is known as “Bundesstelle fuer Entschaesigung der Bediensteten Juedischer Gerneinden.”
It is estimated that the number of affected employees will be in the neighborhood of 1,000 and will include rabbis, cantors, teachers, kosher slaughterers, social workers and administrative workers. Payments will run to 80 percent of the last salary for the official, 48 percent for his widow and 20 percent for orphans under 18 years of age, and will be computed retroactively to October, 1952. Minimum payments may not be less than 3,000 deutschemarks and nor more than 12,000 annually.
The German Government’s new office will process pension claims only after they have been screened by an advisory claims committee set up in Bonn last month by the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. Applications for pensions may be obtained in the U.S. from the United Restitution Office, 1674 Broadway, New York.
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