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100 instead of 10 billion: Lindner wants to saddle up a lot with the share pension

2022-12-06T12:21:13.418Z


100 instead of 10 billion: Lindner wants to saddle up a lot with the share pension Created: 2022-12-06 13:17 By: Lisa Mayerhofer The new stock pension is intended to prevent the contribution rates for statutory pension insurance from having to rise too much. Finance Minister Lindner wants to increase the capital for this once again. Berlin – The statutory pension system in Germany is on the ve


100 instead of 10 billion: Lindner wants to saddle up a lot with the share pension

Created: 2022-12-06 13:17

By: Lisa Mayerhofer

The new stock pension is intended to prevent the contribution rates for statutory pension insurance from having to rise too much.

Finance Minister Lindner wants to increase the capital for this once again.

Berlin – The statutory pension system in Germany is on the verge of collapse due to demographic change, experts warn again and again.

In the next few years, there will be more and more pensioners for fewer and fewer people in work to finance their pensions.

At the initiative of the FDP, the government wants to remedy this problem, at least in part, with the so-called share pension.

It is intended to keep the contribution rate for the statutory pension insurance in check.

Lindner on the share pension: "We need a three-digit billion sum"

Federal Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) now wants to significantly increase the capital for the stock pension.

"We need a three-digit billion sum in the medium to long term so that the income from the share investment can have a noticeable effect on the stabilization of pension contributions and the pension level," Lindner told the

Tagesspiegel

.

For 2023, only a sum of ten billion euros was set in the budget as a starting signal.

The stock pension is not an offer for additional old-age provision, but an instrument with which sharp increases in contributions for the statutory pension insurance are to be prevented, which could result from demographic developments in the medium term.

Stock pension: How should the billions be financed?

The consumer portal Finanztip had calculated that the federal government's share investment would have to have a volume of more than 210 billion euros in order to prevent a contribution increase of one percent.

It is assumed that the long-term average returns of eight percent per year can be generated on the stock market.

The finance minister told the newspaper that he had ideas about how to finance the three-digit billion sum for the stock pension, but that "the federal government had not yet finalized its decision-making process".

Lindner referred to the financing of the first ten billion euros, which will take place entirely through new debt and will flow into the new share reserve as a loan from the federal government.

"We take advantage of the fact that the state has to pay less for its bonds than the returns on the capital markets."

(lma/dpa)

Source: merkur

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