CDU Boss Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has granted a basic pension without a means test, a clear rejection. “I conclude that the Union of a basic pension agrees, without any Form of means-testing,” said Kramp-Karrenbauer, the Newspapers of the editorial network Germany (RND/Wednesday spending). “If the SPD now says out of self-therapeutic reasons that you want to test, no neediness, then that is a Signal in the own ranks.” But it had little to do with the coalition agreement.
Union and SPD had agreed in the formation of your government Alliance on a basic pension, of the low-income earners, after 35 years of contribution to benefit. Unlike in the coalition agreement of the Federal Minister of labour, Hubertus Heil (SPD) wants to make but no means-testing, which would expand the circle of recipients significantly.
The SPD insists on its demand
The SPD remained in this claim. “For us, it is established that there may be a basic pension without the needs test,” said the social policy spokesperson of the SPD parliamentary group, Kerstin Tack, the RND.
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In the report it also said that the uncompromising positions would in coalition as a sign interpreted that in this legislature between the Union and the SPD is no common Position is more developed. The theme would be relocated in the next Federal election campaign. (AFP)
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