Interview: "Sooner or later, the pension without deductions will have to be abolished anyway"
The pension commission wants to abolish the pension without deductions after 45 years of contributions. Just one proposal among many and therefore dispensable? Not at all, says Constanze Janda, the co-chair of the committee.
Frau Janda, co-chair of the Rentenkommission, expressed disappointment that the German government's plan to reform the pension system is dismantling the commission's proposals piece by piece. She feels that politicians are not critically evaluating the commission's suggestions and are instead simply dropping certain aspects due to public disapproval.
The abolition of the proposal for a pension after 45 years of contributions without deductions is considered important by Janda, as the number of contribution years affects the pension amount, not the start date. Janda argues that the proposal was not beneficial to its intended recipients.
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