In Germany, more and more individuals of retirement age are going to work. Final 12 months, 1.05 million workers have been 67 years previous or older. Of those, 217,000 individuals have been employed and 835,000 had a mini-job. This emerges from a response from the federal authorities to a query from the left within the Bundestag.
The corresponding numbers have subsequently risen sharply in recent times, as will be seen from the data from the Ministry of Labour. In 2010 there have been nonetheless round 685,000 workers who have been not less than 67 years previous. In 2015 there have been virtually 792,000 and in 2018 a great 968,000.
“It is a unhappy improvement,” mentioned Left MP Sören Pellmann. “The numbers are additionally the consequence of a pension system that hardly ensures the usual of dwelling of the residents,” he criticized and discovered: “If more and more pensioners have to work, then the pensions are clearly too low.” Regardless of the pension enhance in the summertime, this downside will come up ever rising due to the sharply rising costs.
Within the western German federal states, the variety of employed pensioners rose from virtually 600,000 in 2010 to 890,000 final 12 months. Round 90,500 individuals who have been not less than 67 years previous labored in East Germany in 2010; in 2021 there have been 162,000. Whereas round 87.7 % of workers over the age of 67 had a mini-job in 2010, it was round 79.4 % final 12 months.
