Taxpayers' Federation calls for shorter transitional money for ex-ministers

The Taxpayer Federation wants to reduce the maximum reference time from two years to one year from transitional money for retired Federal Ministers. There should be no "permanent supply at the expense of taxpayers".

Federal ministers earn very good money, but comparable jobs in industry are much better paid. Nevertheless, the taxpayer's association wants to cut off the payment significantly after the end of its term of office.

Those who resign as ministers can receive the so-called transitional money for up to two years. The federal government of taxpayers finds this too expensive and not always justified - and gives an example from the recent past.

Massive reduction of transitional money for ex-ministers – "The luxuriant transitional funds for former federal ministers are nothing more than self-service at the expense of taxpayers," explains Stephan Brandner, Deputy Federal Spokesman of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), in view of the current demands of the federal government of taxpayers for the reform of the minister's supply. "We expressly support this demand, it is overdue – and of us.…

Shortly before the change of government, the Federal Taxpayers' Confederation demanded that the duration of the payment of transitional funds for former cabinet members be halved. "The transitional money for ministers should be limited to twelve months - everything beyond that is unfair," said Reiner Holznagel, president of the association, to the editorial network Germany (Friday expenses). "This money should help to bridge the time between min…

The Taxpayer's Federation calls for a halving of the transitional allowance for former cabinet members: Ex-FDP ministers should be treated as at the employment office.