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BERLIN (dpa-AFX) – Federal Social Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) has confirmed statements from the pension insurance that pensioners can hardly hope for an increase in their salaries this year. “We have to reckon with the fact that there will be no pension increases in the west this year and only a very small one in the east due to the adjustment,” said Heil of the Düsseldorf “Rheinische Post” (Saturday). The pension development almost automatically always follows the wage development of the previous year./and/DP/nas
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