{"id":150426,"date":"2022-07-16T14:11:07","date_gmt":"2022-07-16T08:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/caravanalive.com\/?p=150426"},"modified":"2022-07-16T14:11:07","modified_gmt":"2022-07-16T08:41:07","slug":"challenges-of-pensioners-in-germany-a-tale-of-two-ages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?p=150426","title":{"rendered":"Challenges Of Pensioners In Germany: A Tale Of Two Ages"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"2a6a8c3593e6620bd92d71f585bdd19b\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6453632170035383\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- NEW RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6453632170035383\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2960496911\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>Germany is the most prosperous country in the EU, known for its efficient working class and job opportunities for students. It is a haven for young and talented individuals to harbour their ideas, inventions and developments. But this dream is a nightmare for Germans who, with age, grow weary and naturally become unable to support the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The retired German struggles to make ends meet as they are cast off financially like dried-out branches, living on the outskirts of the major cities with no sense of dignity when they pick up bottles to get paid a few cents if they are lucky. N.G.O. organisations and other charitable support groups are their only source for getting aid.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150442 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pai_cleanup.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"546\" height=\"577\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pai_cleanup.jpeg 546w, https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pai_cleanup-284x300.jpeg 284w, https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/pai_cleanup-450x476.jpeg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 546px) 100vw, 546px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs reported that 48% of German retirees, i.e. more than 8.5 million Germans, were given a pension of less than \u20ac 800 per month, and 62% get less than \u20ac1000 from the government, equivalent to 11.5 million citizens.<\/p>\n<p>A Gazette took the average German elder citizen\u2019s account. She had been given the pen name Sabine. She was a 67-year-old with a pension of \u20ac800 (the poverty line in Germany, that is \u20ac900 for a household with a single person ) after selling flowers for the better half of her life. She retired in 2018, and the meagre pension she receives barely skim her from being unable to pay for food as \u20ac 460 is spent on paying the rent for the dilapidated roof that hangs overhead. She said her only saviour was the Berliner Tafel organisation in the Reinickendorf district in Norther West of Berlin. There she only has to \u20ac1 to fill her shopping trolley full of food.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"n3VNCb KAlRDb aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.prod.www.spiegel.de\/images\/6ae63833-0001-0004-0000-000000399823_w817_r1_fpx49.94_fpy46.88.jpg\" alt=\"Germans Fear Poverty in Retirement Even After Life of Work - DER SPIEGEL\" data-noaft=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n\u201cI would struggle to survive without Tafel,\u201d Sabine remarked when asked about her two daughters, who, according to Sabine, are also stuck in a financial quagmire.\u201dEverything is complicated these days, but we must get by.\u201d She pessimistically added, \u201cThis cost of living is rising all the time, and pensions are rising too, it\u2019s true, but not as much.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With the lowest unemployment rate in Germany, around 4.9% and the highest surplus in the world, approximately \u20ac261 billion in the world, this shows the aspect of negligence, materialism and mercantile nature, which explain the socio-economic status of Germany.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germany is the most prosperous country in the EU, known for its efficient working class and job opportunities for students. 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