{"id":41037,"date":"2026-06-22T10:44:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:44:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/41037\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T10:44:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T10:44:19","slug":"germany-weighs-raising-retirement-age-to-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/41037\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Weighs Raising Retirement Age to 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <a href=\"https:\/\/www.islamtimes.com\/en\/news\/1287561\/germany-weighs-raising-retirement-age-to-70\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/n01287561-b.jpg\" alt=\"Germany Weighs Raising Retirement Age to 70\" title=\"Germany Weighs Raising Retirement Age to 70\" class=\"img-responsive\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>            Islam Times &#8211; The German government is preparing to back sweeping pension reforms that would gradually raise the retirement age to 70, end popular early-retirement schemes, and introduce additional contributions to a state-run investment fund.The package, prepared by a commission appointed by Chancellor Friedrich Merz and Labor Minister Barbel Bas, will be presented on Tuesday in the latest push to make Germans work longer and harder.<\/p>\n<p>The key elements of the proposal include linking the retirement age to life expectancy and gradually raising it from 67 to 70, according to details first leaked by Bild and Die Zeit.<\/p>\n<p>The popular option of retiring without deductions after 45 years of contributions \u2013 known as the \u2018pension at 63\u2019 \u2013 would also be abolished. The commission said these early retirees burden pension funds and deprive the labor market of urgently needed skilled workers.<\/p>\n<p>The new scheme would also require workers and their employers to contribute another 2% of gross wages to a new state-run investment fund, on top of the current 18.6% rate.<\/p>\n<p>The commission will meet one last time on Monday to discuss formalities before submitting its recommendations to Merz and Bas, who, according to Handelsblatt, aim to approve the package before parliament breaks for its annual summer recess in July.<\/p>\n<p>Germany faces growing pension costs as the country\u2019s population ages and millions of baby boomers retire, leaving fewer workers to finance the pay-as-you-go system. The chancellor has repeatedly argued that Germany\u2019s welfare model \u201ccan no longer be financed with what we can economically afford.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Merz urged Germans to commit to \u201cgreater economic output\u2026 through more work.\u201d He also opposed shorter working weeks and criticized employees for taking an average of \u201calmost three weeks\u201d of sick leave annually, instead of working harder to boost the economy.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Albert Stegemann, deputy chairman of the CDU\/CSU parliamentary group in the Bundestag, proposed tightening eligibility rules for public assistance with nursing-home costs, which could force elderly Germans to sell their homes to pay for care.&#13;\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Islam Times &#8211; The German government is preparing to back sweeping pension reforms that would gradually raise the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[27661,189,35828,33839,193,8341,4493,35825,35824,35829,76,5,1235,35822,35827,3012,1640,2353,32157,5703,4528,35823,35819,35821,8216,35564,35826,4791,35820,437,1642,2354,2023,35818,2371],"class_list":["post-41037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-27661","tag-a","tag-additional","tag-age","tag-and","tag-back","tag-contributions","tag-early","tag-end","tag-fund","tag-german","tag-germany","tag-government","tag-gradually","tag-introduce","tag-investment","tag-is","tag-islam","tag-pension","tag-popular","tag-preparing","tag-raise","tag-raising","tag-reforms","tag-retirement","tag-run","tag-schemes","tag-state","tag-sweeping","tag-that","tag-the","tag-times","tag-to","tag-weighs","tag-would"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}