The CSU is contrary to the concept of “respect-pension” of the SPD with a proposal of its own. Party leader Markus Söder wants to expand with a “pension protection screen for the age of” the basic security, and thus, the needy pensioners better. The concept of the social Democrats, by contrast, calls for more money for all pensioners with very low incomes in old age, without the need to be tested.
Minister of labour, Hubertus Heil (SPD) accused the CSU, your proposal is sufficient. Of his concept for the basic pension of three million Old would benefit, he said on Sunday. “The CSU – ideas would only help a fraction, and the majority of those who have earned a pension.”
The Deputy SPD group Chairman Karl Lauterbach rejected Söders plans as “unacceptable”: “we don’t negotiate with the SPD,” he told the daily mirror. The Adherence of the CSU to the means test do to supplicants pensioners. “You can’t do that with people who have worked hard all their lives,.”
Söder, the news Agency dpa, the SPD said proposal was tantamount to a “pension policy with the watering can”. During healing called the cost of the “respect-pension” (because you performance life in work and parenting for low-income earners compared to reward) has been quantified only in a medium single-digit billion sum, cost of the pension umbrella of the CSU, only about 600 million euros in the year.
only a large part of the currently 544.000 recipients of basic security in old age, mainly women, would Benefit from it. Specifically, the CSU wants to provide a part of the statutory pension from the assessment of the social performance, in addition to an additional allowance in the amount of the mothers ‘ pension (the women with basic security so far did not get) and also the capacity of 5000 to 15,000 Euro triple.
Söder called to decide on the basic pension up to the summer. With views of the coalition partner, he said: “The SPD breaks the coalition agreement, we will improve it.” According to the agreement, it is provided that the basic pension “for existing and future basic social security recipients, who have 35 years of contribution periods or periods of child-rearing or nursing times”.
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it should be a means test. But the social Democrats reject, they want to expand the circle of recipients clearly on all pensioners with 35 years of contribution below a certain threshold. The automatic surcharge to the state pension should be at a maximum of 447 euros per month.
