Millions of Germans Have to Work Longer – These Are the New Pension Limits
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The Pensions Commission is ending its deliberations today: drafts point to a higher retirement age and the end to the "retirement at 63" – criticism is growing.
Chancellor Merz plans a major reform. The concept of his pension commission provides for a later retirement, more contributors and an end to early retirement without deduction
Germany faces another cut to its welfare state . The retirement age will be linked to life expectancy . Salary contributions to pensions will immediately increase by 2%. Early retirement will be abolished with full pension and the pension fund will be invested in stock . The set of cuts will topple the political taboo of retirement. Just arrived at the Chancellery in May 2025, Friedrich Merz publicly declared the German pension system “unsustain…
Around 260,000 people go into early retirement each year without deduction. If it is possible after the pension commission, this should no longer be possible in the future.
Longer working, wider paying, additional saving: The Pensions Commission presents a draft that will shape Germany over decades. At the end of the working time "at least 70 percent of the last net wage should stand.
Pension with 70 for today's four-year-olds, pension with 63 cancelled, mini-jobs gone: The Pensions Commission presents its proposals – and they have it in themselves.
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