Rentenreform: CDU und CSU bremsen bei Rentenversicherung für Bundestagsabgeordnete
Im Ringen um die Rentenreform geraten auch die Pensionen der Abgeordneten in den Fokus. Alexander Hoffmann bremst Forderungen der SPD und verweist auf eine komplexe Alternative.
The CDU and CSU are holding back on the rent reform proposal that requires Bundestag members to be included in the statutory pension insurance, as demanded by the SPD. The Rent Commission has not only recommended including the Members of Parliament in the pension fund, but also suggested an alternative of an equivalent transfer, said CSU Landesgruppen chief Alexander Hoffmann in Berlin on Tuesday.
He cautioned that both options were very complex. The equivalent transfer might mean adjusting the pension claims of MPs to the increases in the statutory pension. In any case, the MPs' law would have to be changed. Union and SPD have been battling for weeks to implement the Rent Commission's proposals. The clarification remains whether and in what form the pension without an accident clause after 45 contributions should remain, whether there should still be mini-jobs and whether the so-called block model in the early retirement phase should still be offered.
While Chancellor Friedrich Merz had spoken in favor of fully implementing the Commission's proposals, Hoffmann now said that individual parties could certainly remove certain building blocks. "It is entirely legitimate if individual parties say which building block I do not want," said the CSU politician. However, even in the statutory health insurance, it had become clear that a different proposal would have to be presented that brings about the same savings.
However, this would not apply to the inclusion of the MPs, because this step was primarily a symbolic act. SPD General Secretary Tim Klüssendorf emphasized this on Monday, but warned that the Union should not deviate from the Rent Commission's proposals. It was a "very clear stance" for the SPD that both self-employed individuals and Bundestag members should be included directly in the statutory pension insurance from the first step.
"It is about justice, but also about the symbolic power," Klüssendorf said. "Both are components of this agreement on the pension insurance."
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