Berlin / Kassel (sth). The chronically ill and accident victims who have not been able to work since the beginning of 2019 are entitled to a higher pension than those who were previously disabled. The reason for this is a new legal regulation from 2018. It ensured that the so-called additional time for employees who were no longer able to work was expanded by more than three years in one fell swoop. Since then, the deductible period has arithmetically extended the insurance period of the disabled from the onset of the reduced earning capacity to the personal standard retirement age. As a result, the approximately 161,500 newly disabled people in 2019 received a monthly net pension around EUR 70 higher than employees who have not been able to work or only to a limited extent since 2018.
The catch is that the new regulations of the “Pension Pact” from 2018 will only benefit those who have since been newly disabled. That is around 160,000 to 180,000 physically or mentally ailing women and men every year. Those nearly 1.7 million former employees who have not been able to work for a long time went away empty-handed. A disadvantage that also had an impact on the reforms of the disability pension in 2014 and 2017. The result: employees who had to quit their job for health reasons in 2013 or earlier now receive an average of more than 100 euros less pension per month than new disabled people in 2019 or 2020.
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