CDU's Hüppe demands fairer pensions for Germany's long-term workers
Hubert Hüppe, the federal chairman of the CDU's Senior Citizens' Union, has distanced himself from Chancellor and party leader Friedrich Merz's statement that the statutory pension system would, at best, only provide a "basic income security for old age."
"The Senior Citizens' Union believes it is essential that anyone who has worked and paid contributions for 45 years should receive significantly more than just basic welfare in retirement—even if they only earned the minimum wage," Hüppe told the Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland (Friday editions). "Otherwise, the incentive to work rather than rely on citizen's allowance will be even weaker. This would also further encourage undeclared work."
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