PRESS STATEMENT Private pension plans place a disproportionate burden on employees

“This needs to be urgently revised. What’s on the table so far doesn’t solve any of the existing structural problems. The proposal for mandatory private pension plans places a one-sided burden on workers. By clinging to the partial-benefit system, the federal-state working group is imposing unnecessary limitations on its own thinking: Real relief would come from a universal insurance system into which civil servants, politicians, and high-income earners also contribute, and which, as a comprehensive insurance plan, covers all long-term care-related costs.”

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