MAccording to a calculation by the Federal Statistical Office, more than seven million pensioners in Germany have to get by on less than 1,250 euros net per month. That is more than 42 percent of all pension recipients in the country, as shown by the survey at the request of the left-wing MP Dietmar Bartsch, which is available to the Editorial Network Germany (RND). More than five million of those affected are women.
According to the calculation, around one in four pension recipients earns less than 1,000 euros per month. According to the German Pension Insurance's 2023 pension atlas, the average gross pension in this country was 1,728 euros for men and 1,316 euros for women in 2022.
In view of these figures, left-wing politician Bartsch spoke of a “declaration of poverty for our country”. Pensioners are the “main losers from inflation,” he told the RND.
Bartsch called on the federal government to take action. “We need a one-off and additional pension increase of ten percent this year to at least compensate for inflation,” he said.
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