Employment: 1.1 million individuals proceed to work, though they’ve lengthy been retired | EUROtoday

The variety of pensioners nonetheless working in Germany has reached a report. According to the Federal Statistical Office, greater than 1.1 million individuals aged 67 and over final 12 months, because the “star” reviews, citing a request from the Alliance Sahra Wagenknecht (BSW). That was as many working pensioners than ever earlier than and 51,000 greater than 2023.

Compared to 2004, the quantity has quadrupled. At that point, 288,000 individuals over 67 had been nonetheless employed. The variety of pensioners, then again, elevated solely barely in the identical interval: in 2004 it was 19.6 million, final 12 months 21.4 million.

CDU common secretary Carsten Linnemann had not too long ago triggered a debate together with his assertion that pensioners would work too little in Germany. BSW boss Sahra Wagenknecht accused Linnemann in order that the pensioners “mock”. “Today, more pensioners work than ever before,” Wagenknecht informed the “star”.

It is nice if corporations would additionally fall again on the competencies of older individuals. Also, not everybody would work longer for monetary causes. “However, the quadrupling of the numbers shows that hundreds of thousands of seniors are simply forced to improve their narrow covers,” mentioned Wagenknecht.