SPD on pensions

The SPD wants to develop a state-level strategy against poverty in old age. In its view, it is unacceptable for people to be poor after a long working life.

Many old people have little money. The SPD wants a state plan against poverty in old age. People who worked for a long time should not be poor. Thuringia should help as far as it is allowed to.

The platform cites figures from the social association VdK Hessen-Thüringen, according to which 400,000 people are affected by old-age poverty. The SPD justifies the plan with its social democratic values. The effects of old-age poverty are to be cushioned comprehensively within the limits of the state's powers.

The SPD rejects calls to extend people's working lives. Instead, employees in Thuringia are to be able to work more productively, and no one is to be left without a vocational qualification.

Some people want workers to retire later. The SPD says no to this. Instead, work should become more productive. Everyone in Thuringia should have a job qualification.

As an alternative to a longer working life, the platform names higher productivity of employees in the state. In addition, everyone is to obtain a vocational qualification. The SPD wants to evaluate the state programs for bringing the long-term unemployed into work and continue those that prove effective.