Germany: Pension under 1,200 euros for one in five pensioners with 45 years of work

More than one million citizens with at least 45 years of work in Germany receive a pension of less than 1,200 euros/month. The head of the “Alliance Zara Wagenknecht” (BSW) speaks of a “political scandal” and calls for the implementation of the Austrian model. According to the federal government’s answer to Zara Wagenknecht’s question, at the end of last month, there were approximately 1.08 million pensioners with a working time of at least 45 years, out of a total of 5.4 million, with a pension of less than 1,200 euros. The residents of the eastern states, mainly Brandenburg, Saxony and Thuringia, are particularly affected. In the same answer it is also mentioned that the average pension after 45 years of insurance is 1,604 euros – 1,663 euros in the western states and 1,471 in the east. “The figures show how bad the German pension system is. The fact that one in five pensioners after 45 years of work receives less than 1,200 euros is a political scandal. Germans should not put up with such low pensions, which indeed they are […]
Source: News Beast

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