Pension insurance is behind the Greens application

Berlin (sth). There are only around five months left until the general election at the end of September. But still the one from Union and SPD The federal government led by the government has not achieved one of its pension policy goals agreed in the coalition agreement: a pension obligation for all self-employed who have not yet had any compulsory insurance. It is therefore not without a certain irony if, of all times, at the request of three of the four opposition parties Experts come together in the Bundestagto talk to the social politicians of the political groups about requests from FDP, Greens and Left to discuss social security for the self-employed.

It is true that only two of the applications also focus on old-age insurance – but at least one of them is expressly respected by the experts at the German Pension Insurance. So puts the pension insurance in their opinion For today’s Monday meeting it was clear that the Greens’ obligation to provide for old age for all self-employed persons who are not otherwise compulsorily secured is “sensible” from their point of view. In support of this, the pension insurers write that the old-age poverty risk of those affected and the risk for society of having to look after the self-employed in old age with the help of tax payments “would be considerably reduced by mandatory old-age insurance”.

Compulsory coverage in pension insurance offers the “advantage of continuous coverage in just one system”, according to the statement of the pension insurance, especially for the self-employed who have repeatedly switched between self-employment and an employee relationship in the course of their professional life or who pursue both forms of employment in parallel. In addition, the coverage then includes “the risk of premature reduced earning capacity and the protection of survivors – as well as entitlement to benefits of prevention and rehabilitation”.

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