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, the political landscape is currently dismantling the plan for a major reform of the pensions commission piece by piece. Do you regret the countless nights and overtime hours you dedicated as co-chair of the commission? I was prepared for debates to arise, and I believe it is entirely justified. However, the long nights weigh heavily on me, and it frustrates me that the decision-makers in politics don't question why we made certain proposals.
They take the easy route: voters find certain aspects unjust, so we abandon them and move on. This approach is very unreflective. They are targeting the pension-free pension after 45 contribution years. From your perspective, why is abolishing it important? The way the pension system is structured, the number of contribution years does not determine when a policyholder retires.
Instead, it influences the amount of the pension. The idea of honoring a life benefit by starting retirement earlier is foreign to the system. But the primary argument is something else: the pension-free pension after 45 contribution years does not actually benefit the people it was intended for.
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