Overview
- Performance bonuses and related allowances will not be paid this year to both civil servants and tariff employees.
- The finance administration has blocked all relevant budget titles in the latest 2024/25 supplementary budget.
- No funds are allocated for 2025, and the 2026/27 draft budget also contains no provisions for these payments.
- Officials say the uniform freeze ensures equal treatment, avoids job or pay cuts, and secures the takeover of state trainees.
- The approach could still change pending the Berlin state parliament’s deliberations and approval of the double budget.