Federal Labor Minister Hubertus Heil (SPD) has promised a permanent guarantee of a pension level of 48 percent for the draft pension package II. “We have now secured this until 2039, but it is written in the law that it should be this way permanently,” explained the minister on Thursday evening on the ZDF program “Maybrit Illner” Anyone who has had an average income for 45 years and dutifully paid into the pension fund will receive a monthly pension of48 percent of the average employee's income.