Implemented important demands of the Greens

“Recher: Inside small and medium -sized pensions up to 2,500 euros – and thus the vast majority of the pensioners: inside – get the full inflation compensation. There are fixed amounts of this – the most important demands of the Greens were implemented,” commented Markus Koza, work and social spokesman for the Greens for 2026.

Recher: Inside small and medium -sized pensions – mostly women – have already made a major contribution to budget consolidation: “Those people would have made further cuts particularly painfully. That is why full adaptation here was so important to us,” remembers Koza of increasing the health insurance contributions or the abolition of the climate monus, which would have particularly made people with low pensions. “Pensionist: Inside with small and medium -sized incomes, the full inflation compensation needs particularly urgent to be able to cushion the losses suffered at least partially. That was the least – and actually a matter of course – what had to be expected from this government.”

With a contribution to the ‘strong shoulders’ to budget consolidation, the Greens criticize these austerity measures again. “The contributions of millions and digital groups promised by Babler continue to be no longer available. We are still miles away from a socially just budget consolidation.”

Koza therefore also criticizes the government plans for expensive tax gifts as part of ‘Working in old age’: “A flat tax on additional income in addition to the pension and the halving of the employer contributions put a strain on the budget with up to 470 million euros annually. At the same time, it is claimed that there is no money for a full inflation adjustment. This does not have to be saved. Place – and here would be one. “