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Labor Minister Heil wants to have civil servants pay into the pension fund like they do with pensions in Austria.
The move sparks outrage among the GdP.
Berlin – Pensions continue to provide material for discussion.
After Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) and Finance Minister Christian Lindner (FDP) recently presented the new traffic light pension package, there is resistance from many camps.
The economist Martin Werding has already calculated which group will be “most heavily burdened” in the new pension package.
In addition to the criticism of the stock pension, which Sahra Wagenknecht described as a “casino pension” and which VdK boss Bentele also warned that generational capital is not a “stock market game”, the focus is primarily on Heil's initiative.
The SPD politician can imagine that in the future civil servants will have to pay into the pension fund based on the model of the pension in Austria.
Pension like in Austria: Civil servants' union opposes traffic light's new pension package
However, Heil's push for a pension like in Austria is causing stomach pains for some.
The police union (GdP) is openly skeptical about the Federal Labor Minister's plans to integrate civil servants into pension insurance in the long term.
“The federal government is very well advised to strengthen pensions in Germany and at the same time preserve the pensions of us law enforcement officers,” said the GdP federal chairman Jochen Kopelke at the
editorial network Germany (RND)
.
Labor Minister Hubertus Heil's move to have civil servants pay into the pension fund based on Austria's pension model has caused dissatisfaction.
The police union (GdP) is outraged.
(Archive image) © IMAGO/Bernd Elmenthaler
So far, civil servants have received state-financed pensions.
On the other hand, pension recipients receive their amounts from income from the German pension insurance, which the state co-finances with subsidies.
Pension like in Austria: Union storms against new traffic light pension package
The Left, the Greens and social organizations as well as the AfD have long been calling for civil servants and the self-employed to be included in pension insurance, as is also the case in other European countries.
Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil was open to broadening the basis for statutory pension insurance, as is the case with pensions in Austria.
“In Germany we will also discuss how we can include other groups in the protection of the statutory pension insurance in the long term,” the SPD politician explained.
There would then be no more pensions.
This initiative sparked outrage among the GdP.
“The people in the security authorities stand up for the safety of all people in the Federal Republic at all times of the day and night,” said Kopelke.
“These people deserve appropriate pensions and shorter working lives.” Regardless of whether they are civil servants or employed, the police officers should be able to retire without any deductions and earlier, demanded the GdP federal chairman.
Traffic light pension package II: Civil servants, self-employed people and politicians should pay into pension insurance
While the first trade union is running against the traffic light's new pension package II, the chairwoman of the German Trade Union Confederation, Yasmin Fahimi, supports the Labor Minister's initiative.
She demanded that civil servants, self-employed people and politicians also have to pay into pension insurance.
“That would significantly stabilize the insurance systems,” said the DGB boss in
Bild am Sonntag
.
In her opinion, one could start with those who are now being newly appointed civil servants.
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Opinions continue to differ on the traffic light's new pension concept, which is intended to secure pensions and low contributions in the future.
Meanwhile, other construction sites are already giving the Labor Minister a headache.
On the one hand, there was a demand for a quick change in the basic pension so that the supplement for pensioners was “not a pittance” and, on the other hand, the SPD politician was once again confronted with a snag in the budget.
Which is why Heil felt forced to make a promise of social benefits, but at the same time admit that “we can’t afford everything.”