In view of the shortage of skilled workers, the CDU is making a new push for an end to the full pension at 63 for long-term insured persons. The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Dreyer rejects this demand.
Mainz – The Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Malu Dreyer has the demands of the CDU faction deputy Jens Spahn for an abolition of the retirement at 63 criticized as “unjust and inconsiderate”. “It’s about people who have worked for 45 years and paid into the pension fund,” said the SPD politician to the German Press Agency in Mainz on Whit Monday. “People who have been slaving away, mostly since they were 14.”
Dreyer: The abolition of pensions at 63 would hit people hard
Dreyer emphasized: “Mr. Spahn may not be able to imagine that. It’s about roofers, shop assistants, nurses, workers, who have worked hard all their working lives and contributed a lot to the prosperity of our country.”
The abolition of retirement at 63 hit hard people who have worked hard all their lives, often with full physical effort. “For me, it is a sign of respect that they can retire after such a long time without deductions,” emphasized Dreyer. “That’s why I find it inconsiderate that Mr. Spahn wants to refer those who, after a long working life at 63, to the disability pension.” Demographic change is taken into account by the fact that the retirement age is also the entry age for the deduction-free pension for particularly long-term insured will be gradually raised.
Spahn: “Retirement at 63 costs prosperity, burdens future generations”
Spahn had told the “Bild am Sonntag”: “Retirement at 63 costs prosperity, burdens future generations and sets the wrong incentives. It should be abolished immediately and replaced by a better disability pension.” Two million skilled workers who had retired earlier are now “bitterly” missing. The demand was immediately met with opposition from the SPD, the Greens and the Left.
The regulation was introduced in 2014 by the then black-red federal government and is aimed at “particularly long-term insured persons” who have paid contributions for at least 45 years. Those born before 1953 could retire at 63 with no deductions. For young people born before 1963, this age limit increases gradually. From the birth cohort of 1964 onwards, it is again 65 years, as stated in general information from the German pension insurance. dpa