WORKERS who paid into the pension fund in Germany for 40 years receive an average pension of 1,370 euros, the labor ministry announced on Monday.

“The average pension for those who paid in for 40 years in the western part of the country amounts to 1,423, and in the east 1,255 euros,” the labor ministry said in an explanation in response to an inquiry from the parliamentary group of the Left party. The data refer to the end of 2021 because statistics for the past year are not yet complete, and these statistics do not include pension increases of five percent each for 2022 and 2023.

Left party MP and the party’s commissioner for eastern Germany issues Soren Pellmann criticized the fact that even more than 30 years after German reunification, the differences in pensions in the east, that is, the area of the former East Germany, and the west are still so large.

“In every eastern German federal state, the pension is lower than in the western part of the country. That is frightening,” said the Left politician, a party that emerged from the ruling SED, the party of the former German Democratic Republic, and which mainly enjoys support in the eastern part of the country.

Pellmann simultaneously criticized the overall level of pensions, which in his opinion are too low. “1,370 euros for 40 years of slogging?! That is scandalously little,” said Pellmann.

In Croatia, the average pension is 420.57 euros. The average non-privileged pension amounted to 388.22 euros or 2923.29 kuna in January 2023. The average is raised by privileged pensions – the average privileged pension amounts to 886.94 euros (6678.66 kuna).

Source: index.hr