Employed people are to receive a lump sum of 300 euros due to rising energy costs. Pensioners are exempt from this for the time being. According to the DGB senior citizens’ associations, this must change.
With a view to rising energy costs, senior citizens’ associations from trade unions are also demanding relief for pensioners as well.
The planned energy price flat rate of 300 euros should not only be paid to those in employment, said Klaus Beck, federal senior citizen representative of the German Trade Union Confederation (DGB), the editorial network Germany (RND). “With the planned relief packages, a quarter of the population was simply thrown down the back,” he said. It is urgently necessary that the planned flat-rate relief is also paid for pensioners.
The reference to the fact that pensions will increase by more than five percent on July 1 does not count. «(Federal Labor Minister) Hubertus Heil kicks the shins of pensioners in Germany with this argument. The pension increase is set by law, it is based on the collective bargaining agreements of recent years. » According to the information, around 1.2 million pensioners are organized in the German Federation of Trade Unions.
The chairwoman of the federal senior management of the railway and transport union (EVG), Annegret Pawlitz, told the RND: “Many pensioners live in rural areas and are particularly badly affected by the rising fuel and energy prices. The blanket relief must come urgently.”
Source: Stern
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