Status: January 17th, 2020 5:19 pm.

Yesterday, Labor Minister Heil submitted the draft law on the basic pension to the cabinet for a vote. But whether the pension will come like this is doubtful. Because there is criticism.

By Kai Clement, ARD capital studio.

On November 10th, after a long struggle, everything finally seemed to be in butter – or in ice cream: “We then ate strawberry ice cream for a while to lighten the mood a bit. That made everyone peaceful,” remembers CSU boss Markus Söder.

The coalition committee of the Union and the SPD had finally agreed on a compromise on the basic pension. Hardly, however, is the draft law by the responsible minister Hubertus Heil on the market two months later than the peace has already come to an end: “The whole thing is piecemeal and cannot come into law, although we want to deliver now, of course. That’s sloppy been worked “, the CSU economic politician Hans Michelbach rumbled in an interview with the WDR .

“First of all, there is the point that spouses are disadvantaged compared to unmarried couples,” explains Michelbach. Because: In the case of married people, the income test also includes the spouse – in the case of unmarried people living together, the partner is left out. That is not constitutional.

Second, there is a lack of solid funding: “That is why what is now available misses the compromise that has been found,” said the CSU politician.

The party leaders Kramp-Karrenbauer, Dreyer and Söder present the compromise on the basic pension in November.

Financing unclear.

The basic pension should get more long-term low-income earners than initially planned: There should be a surcharge from 33 years of contribution, and only from 35 then – as has long been known – the full rate. According to the draft law, this means costs of around 1.4 billion euros for the first year alone. These are to be covered entirely from tax revenues – including a tax on financial transactions. But such a tax does not yet exist. Finance Minister Olaf Scholz is still negotiating this with EU partner countries, says Kristina Wogatzki from the Finance Ministry: “We are very confident that we will soon come to an agreement with the member states,” says Wogatzki.

However, she cannot give a specific timetable either.

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“The draft law is in the departmental vote without the financing part”, added Franziska Haas, spokeswoman for the Ministry of Labor. The CDU’s social policy spokesman, Peter Weiß, criticizes the draft law that is now before the ministries for a vote: “And that is why the cabinet only takes decisions on the basic pension if the financial part is clear. We definitely want to avoid that the contributors have to pay for the basic pension, “says the CDU politician.

Weiss told the ARD capital city studio that if the remaining questions were resolved, the cabinet could pass the bill in February: “The open questions also include how we actually concentrate the basic pension on those who urgently need it there are still intensive negotiations. “

New dispute over basic pension – Union criticizes draft law as piecemeal Kai Clement, ARD Berlin January 17, 2020 3:46 p.m..

The coalition still has a lot of work to do.

Nothing more with strawberry ice cream with the Union, the coalition partner of the SPD. Then there is also the fundamental criticism of the opposition, including Johannes Vogel from the FDP, who is also unsatisfied with the reduction to 33 contribution years: “Before it was everyone who had less than 35 years of retirement, now it is everyone who has less than 33 Years of retirement. http://main-news.website/is-it-bad-a-person-with-19-years-of-age-difference/ That turned the slope into a steep embankment, but still a lot of people fall over backwards. And it can’t be. “

The prognosis of the SPD parliamentary group leader Rolf Mützenich at the beginning of the year meeting of the SPD parliamentarians on the introduction of the basic pension seems to be more true than he should like: “We announced it, but now the hard work lies ahead of us.”

Tagesschau24 reported on this topic on January 17, 2020 at 12:00 p.m..