pension
Minister of Social Affairs also open to higher retirement age
The retirement age gradually increases to 67 in Germany. Suggestions for a further increase come from the economy, among other things. The Minister of Social Affairs is open to this.
Federal Minister Bärbel Bas can also imagine a higher retirement age with a view to a future pension reform. When asked whether this was to be done with her, the SPD politician in the ZDF “Morgenmagazin” said: “I am open to everything. On the other hand, I also want that other groups of employment such as MPs, self-employed and also civil servants will pay in a system at some point in the future. So I am also open to the other side.”
A spokeswoman for the Ministry of Social Affairs explained that the minister had referred to the fact that the pension commission planned by the Union and the SPD, which is supposed to make suggestions for a reform, generally had no topic to be pre -resistant.
Union and the SPD want to get future securing the pension level for the coming years in the next few weeks. Then a new pension commission should think about the future. The coalition partners had agreed to establish such a commission in their coalition agreement.
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Source: Stern
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