Expert recommends more pensions for risk groups in old age. Fabian Hartmann: Pension insurance is facing difficult times.

Many cohorts of the baby boomer generation are not about to reach retirement age. The low birth rates of the late 1990s and 2000s could soon have an impact on the labor market. The political side now needs to react to this, says Hartmann. Heating costs: There is a risk of high additional payments - but it's not enough to "abilize" pensions.