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Scholz's pension puzzle: Chancellor wants to keep older people in the labor market longer

2022-12-14T04:00:56.339Z


Scholz's pension puzzle: Chancellor wants to keep older people in the labor market longer Created: 2022-12-14 04:49 By: Sebastian Horsch More and more Germans are retiring early. Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on the other hand, wants to keep older people in the labor market longer. How exactly, he leaves open for the time being. Munich – Olaf Scholz is approaching retirement age. But even though the


Scholz's pension puzzle: Chancellor wants to keep older people in the labor market longer

Created: 2022-12-14 04:49

By: Sebastian Horsch

More and more Germans are retiring early.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz, on the other hand, wants to keep older people in the labor market longer.

How exactly, he leaves open for the time being.

Munich – Olaf Scholz is approaching retirement age.

But even though the Federal Chancellor turns 65 in June, he is not yet thinking about his retirement.

On the contrary: Scholz has announced that he wants to run for a second term.

At the start of this in autumn 2025 he would be 67 – an age at which many Germans no longer want to work.

And that's not just a problem for Social Democrat Scholz.

Retirement: Germans want to stop working earlier - Scholz wants to work against it

The trend is clearly recognizable.

Retirement as early as possible seems to be the goal for significantly more people in this country than just the often cited roofers who can no longer physically hold out.

This goal is particularly achievable for those who have either been able to put enough aside or have started to work early.

Because the grand coalition of the Union and the SPD have created special opportunities over the past decade with laws such as the so-called pension at 63 (which should now actually be called pension at 64 due to the increasing entry age).

The number of people who have since received a pension without deductions after 45 years of insurance has now almost reached the two million mark, according to the German pension insurance.

In addition, the Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) has found that more and more people are retiring early, which means that they have to accept deductions – on average 28 months before the standard retirement age.

After more and more older people remained in work at the beginning of the millennium, this trend stagnated in the baby boomer cohorts of all people, who were born in the baby boom years after the Second World War.

Chancellor Olaf Scholz wants to dissuade Germans from early retirement.

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Riddles about retirement: Chancellor Scholz with a vague formulation – process pension at 63?

The Chancellor wants to break this trend.

"It is important to increase the proportion of those who can really work until retirement age," he said in an interview with the "Funke" group.

It is a typically vaguely formulated Scholz sentence that leaves room for interpretations as to what political intentions for action could be behind it.

Stefan Müller, parliamentary secretary of the CSU in the Bundestag, even suspects that the SPD is now starting to complete its prestige project pension at 63.

pension dispute?

FDP is pushing for more individuality and calls for a flexible retirement age

Scholz's coalition partner FDP, on the other hand, is pushing for more individuality.

"With a flexible retirement age and different working time models, each individual could make the personal transition to retirement much more precisely than today," says parliamentary group leader Christian Dürr in the

Tagesspiegel

.

“Overall, that would lead to greater attractiveness and thus greater willingness to work longer.”

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But while the chancellor himself initially left his statements as they are, the SPD is trying to get the debate going again.

The retirement age – currently 67 years – is not up for discussion.

"The Chancellor wanted to make it clear that given the dramatic shortage of workers that we currently have, we must also provide older workers with employment opportunities," says party leader Saskia Esken.

The world of work is "not well geared" for the employment of older people, she adds.

"We have to change something about that so that everyone has a good chance of reaching normal retirement age," demands the SPD leader.

Retirement at 63 without deductions is still important, "because there are people who work so hard that they cannot reach normal age in good health".

Source: merkur

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