More and more pensioners in Germany have to go to the social welfare office and are in danger of slipping into poverty in old age.
This is the result of new figures from the Federal Statistical Office, which are available to the “Redaktionsnetzwerk Deutschland”.
According to this, the number of recipients of basic security in old age rose from 628,570 to 647,515 within three months from June to September 2022 alone.
That's 18,945 more people.
"Inflation arrives at the social welfare office"
Compared to September 2021, there were even 68,420 more people in the “age limit and older” category who had to apply for basic security.
This corresponds to an increase of around twelve percent.
Left parliamentary group leader Dietmar Bartsch told the editorial network: “Poverty in old age is chasing from record to record.
Twelve percent more since the federal elections – the social security office is receiving the inflation.”
Bartsch called for a "consistent anti-inflation policy", for example through tightened price brakes and government price controls for food and energy.
He is also committed to a pension summit in the Chancellery: “It is high time for a major pension reform in Germany.
The pension must secure the standard of living and protect against poverty.”