Federal Statistical Office
2.1 million pensioners live below the poverty line
Age poverty is female. Around 62 percent of those affected are women. This emerges from new information from the Federal Statistical Office. Do other countries do better?
Women are particularly often threatened by poverty in old age. This emerges from a special evaluation of the Federal Statistical Office, which the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht had asked and that star is present. According to her, around 2.1 million pensioners lived below the risk of poverty last year. The pensioners were 1.3 million. So around 62 percent of those affected by old age were female.
According to the Federal Statistical Office, pensioners are currently considered to be at risk of poverty if they have less than 1378 euros net per month as a single person.
An increase of 76 percent
Overall, the number of those affected has increased significantly over the past ten years. In 2005, almost two million pensioners were affected by poverty, it is currently 3.4 million – an increase of 76 percent with a comparatively slightly increased number of pensioners from 19.8 million in 2005 to 21.4 million in 2024.
Women therefore have a much higher risk because on average they work more often part -time, have longer breaks in employment and are more common in poorly paid professions.
“Our pension system is hostile to women”
“Not stuttering when gendering brings equality,” said BSW boss Sahra Wagenknecht that star. “Our pension system is hostile to women.” It pleads for the introduction of a pension model based on the model of Austria. Almost all of them pay into the statutory pension there, including civil servants. The average pension is significantly higher than in Germany. “We need a change to the Austria pension,” said Wagenknecht. Specifically, the BSW demands a minimum pension of 1500 euros after 40 years of insurance.
The unions Verdi and the German Trade Union Confederation have long been calling for a role model to take a role model. However, both systems differ in several points. One of them: In Austria, after 15 years at the earliest, the right to an old -age pension is acquired, in Germany after five. This is also reflected in the statistics.
In the past, the Federal Ministry of Labor and German Pension Insurance have therefore pointed out that the pension systems are not comparable.
Source: Stern
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