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Pension and part-time job 2022: this is how much pensioners are allowed to earn

2022-05-04T07:43:25.955Z


Pension and part-time job 2022: this is how much pensioners are allowed to earn Created: 04/05/2022 09:34 By: Felix Busjaeger In 2022, some pensioners will again be able to earn significantly more. The reason is a staff shortage due to the corona pandemic (symbol image). © McPHOTO/Imago In order to compensate for current staff shortages, pensioners are currently allowed to earn significantly m


Pension and part-time job 2022: this is how much pensioners are allowed to earn

Created: 04/05/2022 09:34

By: Felix Busjaeger

In 2022, some pensioners will again be able to earn significantly more.

The reason is a staff shortage due to the corona pandemic (symbol image).

© McPHOTO/Imago

In order to compensate for current staff shortages, pensioners are currently allowed to earn significantly more money in addition to their 2022 pension.

The left fears poverty in old age.

Berlin – Living well in old age.

That is the wish of many employees in Germany when they look at their retirement and pension.

It is no longer uncommon for seniors to be dependent on supplementing their 2022 pension with a part-time job.

The traffic light government wants to secure pensions with a five-point plan.

As a question from the left shows, every third full-time employee in Germany after 45 years of work is threatened with a gross pension of less than 1,300 euros a month.



This is reported by the newspapers of the Funke media group, citing a response from the Federal Ministry of Labor.

There is also good news for pensioners with early retirement in 2022: they can earn up to 46,060 euros.

Regular Income:

pension

Entry age in Germany:

67 years of age

Average pension man:

1178 euros

Average pension woman:

768 euros

Additional earnings limit for the 2022 pension: Additional earnings are taxed

Golden years for pensioners 2022: "The temporary special regulation for high additional income limits for early pensioners should now apply until the end of 2022," explained Daniela Karbe-Gessler from the Taxpayers' Association in winter 2021, according to the German Press Agency.

It should be noted that earnings in excess of the additional earnings limit for the 2022 pension will be offset against the pension at 40 percent.

Once you have reached normal retirement age, employment no longer affects your old-age pension.

Severely disabled people must also observe special rules if they leave the world of work earlier.

Pension 2022: Regardless of the earnings limit, income must be taxed

As the German pension insurance informs, the current increase in earnings limits is intended to counteract staff shortages that have arisen as a result of the corona pandemic.

From 2023, the original additional income limit of 6300 euros will probably apply again.

The increase in earnings limits does not apply to disability and survivor's pensions.

Irrespective of the respective earnings limit and pension taxation, the additional income is taxable.

Meanwhile, the traffic light government led by Labor Minister Hubertus Heil wants to raise the minimum wage in Germany.

For Verdi, this could create problems for the pension.

For people who receive a company pension in addition to their statutory pension, special conditions could apply: For this reason, the German pension insurance recommends in an article that those affected should inquire with the institution of your company pension whether drawing a partial pension will affect the amount of the company pension could have.

Under certain circumstances, there could be cuts or suspension of the company pension, as reported by kreiszeitung.de.

Pension 2022: Left parliamentary group leader Dietmar Bartsch warns of poverty in old age

According to the newspapers of the Funkemediengruppe, employees at the current pension level of the 2022 pension would have to earn at least 2800 euros a month before deductions in order to get a statutory pension of 1300 gross, according to the Federal Ministry of Labor.

In order to get to 2500 euros gross, a monthly wage of 5350 euros before taxes and duties is currently required.

For this reason, Left Party leader Dietmar Bartsch warns of the increasing risk of poverty in old age.

Meanwhile, current pensioners are considered the biggest winners of the crisis.

Meanwhile, the president of the pension insurance, Gundula Roßbach, has turned against black painting in the debate about future pensions in Germany.

Although he welcomes the decision of the traffic light government around Chancellor Olaf Scholz (SPD) to increase the minimum wage in Germany to 12 euros, Bartsch would advocate a higher increase.

"Because with a minimum wage of 12 euros, at the end of your life - 45 years of work - you will still be covered by basic security when you retire," said the politician.

This circumstance undermines the trust in the statutory pension insurance if only a few hundred euros remain above the Hartz IV level after a complete working life.

Bartsch therefore called for the pension level to be increased to at least 50 percent.

CSU on pension 2022: Christian social want generation fund

Meanwhile, the CSU parliamentary group is taking a different approach to the 2022 pension: The Christian Socialists are increasingly focusing on prevention and are therefore calling for the introduction of a generational fund into which money should be regularly paid for every German citizen up to the age of 18.

The CSU catalog of measures also includes strengthening single parents when it comes to retirement.

Meanwhile, the traffic light wants more equal opportunities and less child poverty in Germany.

Family Minister Anne Spiegel (Greens) relies on basic child security.

Source: merkur

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