What do the parties in Thuringia say on pensions?

The BSW calls for a pension system modeled on Austria's, into which all working people pay, including civil servants, the self-employed and legislators. Pension taxation should also be abolished, and statutory pensions below 2,000 euros should in any case remain tax-free.

The BSW wants a pension system like Austria's. Pensions there are higher. Everyone should pay into it. This includes civil servants and self-employed people. Pensions under 2,000 euros should not be taxed.

The CDU holds that anyone who has worked and paid contributions all their life should be better off in old age than those who have not. Child-rearing and caregiving periods should count appropriately when pensions are calculated.

Pensions should be enough to live on. People who worked for a long time should have more money in old age than others. Raising children should also count toward a pension. The same goes for caring for relatives.

The Left wants to use the Bundesrat to push for a fundamentally different pension policy: a minimum pension of 1,200 euros, a pension level of 53 percent and no increase in the retirement age. Everyone in work would pay into one common system. According to the program, the goal is that no one is poor in old age.

The Left wants big changes to pensions at the national level. Everyone should get a pension of at least 1,200 euros. The retirement age should not go up. Civil servants, self-employed people and politicians should also pay into the pension fund.

The Left wants to end pension disadvantages that stem from the Unification Treaty and the transfer of East German pensions into the federal system. It considers the federal hardship fund insufficient because it gives only a few people a one-time payment. It plans to back Bundesrat initiatives to compensate everyone affected.

Many people in eastern Germany get less from their pension. This goes back to German reunification. The Left wants to end these disadvantages. Everyone affected should get compensation.

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 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.