On average, there are still significant differences in pensions between women and men.
A report gives specific figures.
Women continue to receive significantly less pensions * than men
: The average statutory pension paid is currently less than 1,000 euros,
specifically 982 euros per month
, reported the
editorial network Germany
(
RND
, as of December 11, 2020), citing a response from Federal Ministry of Social Affairs on a request from the left parliamentary group.
Women would receive an average of 425 euros less per month than men
.
This does not include other old-age income, among other things.
Report: women receive significantly fewer pensions than men
This means that the
gender differences
in
age benefits are
even greater than in earnings, criticized left-wing parliamentary group leader Dietmar Bartsch, according to the report.
"We not only have a wage gap, but also a huge pension gap between women and men," Bartsch told the RND.
He therefore called for "significantly higher wages, especially in social professions that women often do, a minimum wage of twelve euros and a general overhaul of the statutory pension".
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According to RND, Bartsch also: “We are calling for a
pension fund
for everyone similar to that in
Austria
, into which everyone pays, including members of parliament, civil servants and the self-employed.
Together with other measures, the statutory pension would then be able to protect against poverty in old age and secure the standard of living. "
According to the report, as the numbers would show, there is
a divide
not only between women and men but also
between East and West
.
A quarter of all pensioners who would have paid into the pension fund for 40 years would receive “less than 1,000 euros in pension - in the east it is even a third”, writes RND.
In addition, people who are newly retiring would have nine euros less in their wallets than existing pensioners.
Men who have recently retired, in particular, have to get by on less money, the report said.
(ahu) * Merkur.de is part of the nationwide Ippen editorial network
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