Who benefits from the pension dispute?

For decades, pensioners have paid into their pension funds.

and expect that these sums, which they rightly consider their property, will be paid back to them. However, the government is abusing its fiduciary function by dipping into the pension fund and authorizing various payments that should be made from the federal budget.

  • For example, millions of pensioners receive benefits they never paid into; these benefits should be paid for from tax revenue, not from the pension fund.
  • And one problem arises from the fact that many pensioners have given their all for decades and yet still receive only low pension payments of one thousand euros or less. These poverty pensions are partly due to minimum wages. Ms. Wagenknecht has calculated that the minimum wage would have to be around seventeen euros per hour to prevent poverty pensions.
  • Child allowances are a task for society as a whole and should therefore be paid for through tax revenue.

National economist and pension expert Professor Homburg speaks of an intragenerational problem and mentions pensioners who receive multiple pensions, for example, company pensions; does this shed light on the problems or obscure them?

 The claim that the elderly live at the expense of the young is certainly despicable. But to distract from the misappropriation of pensions, the political class will use any argument.

Since the center-right/center-left coalition government has launched a massive arms offensive, it must increasingly draw on pension funds. To prevent the euro's value from depreciating too quickly, the financial markets are simultaneously demanding cuts in so-called social benefits.  

As long as pensioners and other population groups do not resist, cuts will continue, and the parties of the governing cartel and the Greens and Left parties that are in cahoots with them can portray themselves as supporters of their voter base, only to then ultimately decide on austerity packages together out of "political responsibility".

The rearmament is then waved through without comment, and Germany rises to become the largest military power in Europe alongside Russia.

5 Replies to “Who benefits from the pension dispute?”

  1. "The military budget alone will grow by 34 percent in 2026 compared to the previous year, plus special debts. And this despite the fact that Russia has been weakened by the war in Ukraine and will be occupied with rebuilding for decades to come. As early as 2021, German defense spending was equivalent to that of the nuclear power France, with its colonial military operations. If the budget were frozen at this level, it would be easy not only to finance the pension system and thereby stimulate the domestic market. Instead, billions more are to be pumped into the quagmire of corruption in Ukraine."

    Here's the plan again: 82,5 billion euros for the military in Germany, 20 billion for healthcare, and 14 billion for education. Again: Armaments don't create value, they consume it. Armaments merely create a flash in the pan, producing the illusion of a short-term GDP increase, but they aren't meant to create new value, but rather to destroy themselves; they are consumption. After the flash in the pan, and the redistribution of tax revenue and "special funds" to the wealth of the wealthy, the hangover will come. That is, the second phase will follow. In the first phase, the population had to raise the costs through restraint; in the second, they will have to shoulder the interest payments and the consequences of the debt. And each time, the message will be: "Tighten your belts." Because, as I said: Armaments are not the same as infrastructure, education, research, or wealth development for the masses. Armaments mean using resources that are meant to be burned on the battlefield.

    https://tkp.at/2025/11/28/der-deutsche-kriegshaushalt/

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  2. "There are political decisions that are loud and visible. And then there are those that are decided behind the scenes, sound technical, are hardly discussed, and yet change the lives of millions of people. Pension taxation belongs to this silent category. Since the 2005 reform, the system has changed so fundamentally that many people only realize in retirement what was actually decided back then: that they have landed in a bureaucratic hybrid of old and new rules, which often ends up resulting in a double burden. Germany is a country that expects its oldest citizens to bear the consequences of a complicated tax logic they neither wanted nor understood. And while politicians have been downplaying the problem for years, the frustration of those affected continues to grow, quite rightly."

    https://www.manova.news/artikel/doppelt-zur-kasse

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  3. “A look at the development of social spending in comparison to other EU countries reveals a different picture: Germany is slightly above the EU average, but measured as a percentage of GDP, it is almost at the same level. Both figures have remained virtually unchanged for years. The share of social spending in total expenditure has even declined slightly since 2015.”

    https://makroskop.eu/42-2025/wie-das-iw-deutschland-zum-europameister-der-sozialausgaben-rechnet/

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  5. “In all years in which a calculation/projection/estimate was carried out by the VDR or the DRV, the share of non-insurance-related benefits in total pension expenditure amounted to between 34 and 40 percent. The share of federal funds provided for this purpose, on the other hand, has remained between 26 and 27 percent for years, resulting in a deficit that has grown with pension expenditure and now amounts to 1.070 trillion euros, to the detriment of insured persons and pensioners.” (3)

    Why doesn't any of the so-called pension experts in the federal government ask the German Pension Insurance (DRV)? Of course they know – but you don't have to tell the voters everything. And so the injustice persists that social spending, which should be borne by all citizens, is imposed solely on pension contributors.

    https://www.adg-ev.de/phocadownload/Publikatione/2024/ADG_E025_2407_Jaehrliche_versichfremde_Leistungen_seit_1957_TeufelTabelle.pdf
    https://www.manova.news/artikel/hetze-und-herrsche

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