New traffic light law is supposed to relieve pensioners, but the Union is blocking it. With the law, the traffic light coalition also wants to defuse double taxation of pensions - a long overdue step that hardly anyone had paid attention to so far.
New pensioners in particular will receive tax relief in the coming years as a result of the law - or, to put it better: no more burden. The Growth Opportunities Act, which was approved in the Bundestag on Friday, provides relief of around three billion euros.