Should the retirement age be linked to life expectancy?
A survey related to the proposal to introduce retirement at 68 found the following.
In the
opinion of most Germans, the
retirement age *
should
not be
linked
to
life expectancy
. This emerges from a
representative survey by
the polling institute YouGov,
which explicitly referred to the proposal to introduce retirement at 68
. The German Press Agency (dpa) reported on this on Wednesday (June 9). According to this, 70 percent of Germans disagreed with the statement that retirement age should be linked to life expectancy. 20 percent of those questioned agreed, 11 percent did not answer.
Men spoke out in favor of coupling significantly more often than women (26 percent and 14 percent).
There were also differences depending on party preference: supporters of the FDP agreed with the statement most often (50 percent), and most seldom supporters of the left (10 percent), according to the dpa report on the survey mentioned.
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Debate on retirement age - proposal to reform the retirement age at 68
Another discussion recently broke out about the retirement age.
The
Scientific Advisory Board of the Ministry of Economic Affairs
- an advisory body - had proposed a reform towards the retirement age at 68.
There was a threat of "sudden increasing financing problems in the statutory pension insurance from 2025".
The retirement age cannot be decoupled from the development of life expectancy in the long term.
According to the current legal situation
, the age limit for the pension without deductions will be
gradually increased from 65 to 67 years
until 2029
.
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Economics Minister Peter Altmaier: The retirement age should remain at 67
However, the proposal met with a lot of criticism. And Federal Minister of Economics Peter Altmaier (CDU) also rejects raising the retirement age to 68, as recommended by the advisory committee of his house. The retirement age was set at 67 years of age in the grand coalition (2005-2009) "at the suggestion of esteemed colleague" Franz Müntefering (SPD). "It should stay that way, that's been my opinion for years," wrote Altmaier on Tuesday (June 8th) on Twitter. The Scientific Advisory Board of the Ministry of Economic Affairs is independent. His proposals are not binding on either the ministry or the minister.
The retirement age in the 1st Groko (CDU / SPD / CSU) has been set at 67 years at the suggestion of our esteemed colleague F. Müntefering.
It should stay that way, that has been my opinion for years.
The Wiss.
Advisory board is independent;
neither BMWi nor ministers are bound by his proposals.
- Peter Altmaier (@peteraltmaier) June 8, 2021
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After years of pension
increases, the normal increase in old-age
pensions
this year has been canceled due to the corona crisis in western Germany.
And in the
new federal states there
will only be a mini
increase of 0.72 percent
this year
.
There
will therefore only be
a
notification of the annual pension adjustment
for
pensioners with working hours in the new federal states
.
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