The Ministry of Labor gave information about the calculation after a small request from the left-wing parliamentary group.
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Berlin Every third full-time employee in Germany is currently threatened with a gross pension of less than 1,300 euros per month after 45 full-time professional years. This is what the newspapers of the Funke media group report, according to a preliminary report, citing a response from the Federal Ministry of Labor to a request from the left in the Bundestag. After deducting health and long-term care insurance, this means a net pension of around 1160 euros.
“It undermines trust in the statutory pension insurance if after a full working life only a few hundred euros remain above Hartz IV level,” said the parliamentary group leader of the Left in the Bundestag, Dietmar Bartsch, the newspapers. Bartsch demanded that the pension level should rise to at least over 50 percent. According to the pension insurance report in 2021, it was last at 49.4 percent.