What Union and SPD plan for pensions and taxes

A patient from the district of Lilienfeld is only expected to receive cooking aid for 2.5 hours per week. With this small credit period, the 67-year-old also loses the much needed care allowance. Pension insurance must however not be different: What is behind it.

Pension: Stable. This is the message that the Union and the SPD want to set up with their coalition agreement. The pensioners do not want to lose sight of it. But the coalitionists are planning reforms. Experts warn of serious consequences – answers to important questions.

The German employers' associations consider the pension plans of Union and SPD to be too expensive.

The head of the employers' associations criticizes the plans of CDU, CSU and SPD: around 50 billion euros would cost the pension plans. Steffen Kampeter supports two of the changes.

Union and SPD want to keep the pension level stable and increase the mother's pension. This leads to higher labour costs for employers, the BDA complains. In particular, a project is unnecessary, according to the Lobby Association.

Pension, doctor's appointments, tax bonus for overtime surcharges, share savings for young people: these are plans of Union and SPD in social policy.