The East German federal states need to funds round 2.3 billion euros this yr for added and particular pensions from the GDR period. In Saxony, round 670 million euros are due, in Saxony-Anhalt it’s 360 million euros and in Thuringia 350 million euros, based on a response from the Federal Ministry of Social Affairs to a request from the left-wing Bundestag member Christian Görke.
The overall quantity for the East German states is reducing. The federal and state governments share the prices, with the federal authorities now shouldering a bigger share. Most just lately, the states needed to elevate round 2.6 billion euros; in 2020 it was round 2.9 billion euros.
In the course of the GDR period, the supplementary pension was an extra pension for sure skilled teams, corresponding to these within the healthcare sector. The particular pension was a separate pension system for law enforcement officials, for instance. Each had been included into the federal German pension system after German unification. Immediately, a number of hundred thousand folks profit from the funds.
The Left believes it’s absurd that the state budgets proceed to need to bear the prices of the GDR’s extra provide. “The federal authorities should take over these funds fully and lift them from the federal funds so as to relieve the burden on the states,” mentioned the Saxony-Anhalt parliamentary group chief Eva von Angern of the German Press Company. The monetary burden could be very excessive. “The federal authorities because the authorized successor of the GDR should not proceed to shirk his duties.”
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