Govt and Right-Wing Parties Reaffirm Pension Age Deal
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During the government formation, the welfare compromise created disagreements. Now the parties have reaffirmed the compromise as agreed.
Govt and right-wing parties reaffirm pension age deal
The four government parties, as well as Venstre and De Konservative, have reaffirmed a central part of the 2006 welfare agreement. This concerns the agreement’s life expectancy indexing of the state pension age, which means that the increasing life expectancy of the population is reflected in more years in the labour market. The Ministry of […]
The Left Party's parliamentary group leader, Heidi Reichinnek, has sharply criticized the federal government's pension plans. A blanket increase in the retirement age would mean a pension cut for millions of people in the country, she told the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung." This criticism stems from figures requested by the Left Party in the Bundestag, which the newspaper reported on. According to these figures, life expectancy for 65-year-old men …
The Federal Government wants to link the retirement age to life expectancy, but it is developing very differently from one region to another. Heidi Reichinnek, the party leader of the left in the Bundestag, has a problem with this.
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