Society: FDP against earlier retirement for volunteers

Society: FDP against earlier retirement for volunteers

Federal Minister of the Interior Nancy Faeser has brought into play earlier retirement for long-standing volunteers. Now there are first reactions to the proposal.

The proposal by Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) to allow long-term volunteers to retire earlier met with resistance from the coalition partner FDP.

Voluntary work is a question for society as a whole and cannot be passed on to the contributors alone, explained the socio-political spokesman for the FDP parliamentary group, Pascal Kober. “It would also be unfair to the self-employed, who rarely have pension insurance.”

The evening before, Faeser had campaigned to reward volunteer work with the pension. Anyone who has provided such a service to the population throughout their lives can retire about a year earlier without deductions, said the minister in Potsdam at an event organized by the editorial network Germany.

Source: Stern

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