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New Data Drive Calls to Rethink Civil-Service Pension Privileges

The government will entrust a formal commission with proposals after fresh analysis exposed long-term cost pressures in the civil-service pension system.

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Die Zeit läuft davon: Das deutsche Rentensystem steht unter Druck – weil wir länger leben, weniger Kinder bekommen und die Babyboomer bald in Rente gehen

Overview

  • The Pestel-Institut study found that male civil servants live on average 5.6 years longer than manual workers, suggesting they would need to work about 5.5 years more to align pension durations.
  • The Bundesinnenministerium’s Versorgungsbericht forecasts federal civil-service pension expenditures to climb from €7.8 billion in 2023 to €25.4 billion by 2060.
  • Volker Geyer of the Deutscher Beamtenbund and the GdP police union have rejected proposals to adjust retirement ages based on occupational life-expectancy differences.
  • An INSA survey indicates majority support for restricting new civil-service appointments to core state functions and concerns over high pension levels.
  • Labor Minister Bärbel Bas and other leaders have said that longer working lives and integrating civil servants into the statutory pension scheme will be discussed by the Rentenkommission in 2026 and 2027.