The focus: Economics demands radical reforms!

The focus: Economics demands radical reforms!

Berlin, Deutschland - The discussion about the widow's pension flares up again! In the current annual report of the Council of Experts, a comprehensive review of this state support is required. Veronika Grimm, one of the leading economic methods, brings the explosive demand to the table: "The widow's pension should be critically questioned!" Your goal? To dampen the increase in social expenditure in order to secure minimum quotas for other important areas such as education and defense in the long term.

Grimm suggests that the retirement age are pensioning age to the increasing life expectancy and to rethink the existing regulations on the widow's pension as well as the non -discount -free age references for long -term insured persons. "We have to reduce the dependency on the legal pension!" She calls. These demands are not new, but they gain urgency, since the debate about the widow's pension has already been initiated by Monika Schnitzer, which questions the incentives for their own employment.

widow's pension under pressure: Reforms required!

The widow's pension is under pressure to be reformed. Schnitzer argues that the current regulation means that single contributors must pay for the pension claims of their non -employed partners. But she does not suggest to delete the payments for bereaved who have never paid into the pension fund without replacement. Instead, she advocates pension splitting, in which pension claims are evenly divided during a marriage.

A ray of hope for many: Since July 2024 there has been an increase in the widow's pension! 21 million pensioners can look forward to an increase of 4.57 percent, including five million widows and widower, who now receive 39.32 euros instead of EUR 37.60. In addition, there is an extra surcharge of 7.5 percent for survivors who retired between 2001 and 2018, provided that the deceased partner did not move into his own pension. However, the future of the widow's pension remains uncertain, while the discussion about its abolition is bubbling!