The pension plans of the new Federal Minister of Labor Bärbel BAS (SPD) have no chance of implementation in the black and red coalition, according to Chancellor’s head Thorsten (CDU).
The proposal was not coordinated with the Union, said Frei on Sunday evening in the ARD show “Caren Miosga”. “I don’t find any document in the coalition agreement. This is not common sense in the coalition.” In the future, BAS will also include civil servants and self -employed and deputies in the statutory pension insurance.
BAS made its position clear, but these statements should not be overestimated. However, criticism of the proposal also freely criticized the content.
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“You can talk about everything, but it’s not a portable financing model,” he said. The CDU politician justified this that it was clear that “everyone who pays in retirement will get something out”. “And someone who is more paid in retirement is the equivalence principle that gets out more.” That’s why it doesn’t help “just to widen the base”.
Frei referred to the demographic problem of the statutory pension insurance in Germany. “The basic problem in our pension insurance is that, as in the 1960s, there are no more workers for a pensioner, but 1.5 employment for a pensioner.”
Bas` proposal “decision of the SPD”
In its advance, BAS argues that the revenue of the pension funds would increase due to the broader basis. The minister pointed out that the pension contributions should rise slightly in the coming year. According to the will of the Union and SPD, a reform of the pension insurance should initially be discussed in a commission. In the coalition agreement, however, it is stabilized to stabilize the pension level by 48 percent by 2031.
Former Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) had repeatedly emphasized that a involvement of civil servants in the statutory pension insurance could hardly be implemented for civil servants protected in the Basic Law.
Meanwhile, BAS gets support from her party. “I do not understand the excitement for the proposal of Bärbel Bas,” said the previous chairman of the Bundestag’s Labor and Social Committee, Bernd Rützel, the “Augsburger Allgemeine”. What the minister suggested is a resolution of the SPD and can be found in their programs.
BAS supports economy
“We looked at how the Austrians did,” said the SPD social expert with a view to the neighboring country. The traffic light government had already included the self-employed in the statutory pension. “The righteous thing is that everyone makes their solidarity,” said Rützel. The inclusion of self -employed and civil servants would widen the contribution base and initially stabilize the contributions. But there are also challenges when a new model is introduced. “The integration is not a cardboard stick, it takes a long transition phase.”
The economy Monika Schnitzer also considers the inclusion of civil servants to the pension system “sensible”. Laving civil servants into the pension fund does not solve the fundamental problem that future pensions and pensions would have to be paid for by future contribution payers and taxpayers, Schnitzer told the newspapers of the Funke media group. So it depends on the number of the younger generation of the older generation. “And that worsens.”
Nevertheless, it is “sensible” to reform the civil servants’ pension system and to convert it into a general pension system for everyone – “to ensure that all restrictions that are required by legally insured persons are also transferred to one to one”. Specifically, Schnitzer called, for example, the limitation of the increase in pension claims and the increase in retirement age.
The age protection of employees and civil servants consists of two independent systems. Employees are covered by statutory pension insurance. This is initially financed by contributions from employees and employers. However, since these are not enough, billions of grants from the federal budget are added.
In contrast, civil servants, judges, professional soldiers and other public service employees receive a pension after leaving the service that is fully financed by the state. The state also bears the age allowance of MPs, since no contributions are paid to the statutory pension insurance for them during their time in parliament. (AFP, Reuters, dpa)
Source: Tagesspiegel
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