Several members of the Pension Commission have denied that the commission reached an agreement to raise the retirement age to 70 in the long term. This is the report published by the “Handelsblatt”. According to sources, the figure 70 does not appear in the initial draft of the final report. This is also true for the birth years mentioned by “Bild”, for which new specific retirement ages were supposedly calculated. This suggests that the original report may have been influenced by political pressure from outside the commission. Furthermore, participants reported a “tremendously high level of tension” within the group. For the first time, it has been suggested that the continuity of the ruling coalition could depend on the results of the commission’s work. Committee circles also report rumors that the SPD might withdraw from the commission, which the Union could then interpret as a collapse of the coalition agreement.
Pension Commission Members Deny Plan to Raise Retirement Age to 70
