2023-09-16 17:00:00
“Compensation for inflation is a massive, budget-intensive measure. This generation deserves it, but it’s a big chunk. In my view, no more is possible,” said Nehammer in the “Kleine Zeitung” (online). However, there must be “adaptations” to the Renewable Heat Act.
The senior citizens’ representatives had recently expressed their satisfaction that the pension increase of 9.7 percent would compensate for inflation and that the government had announced a protective clause to prevent an impending loss of value for the coming pension cohort. However, they called for further discussions regarding their demand for compensation for the interim financing, a permanent abolition of aliquoting and a protective clause also for the year 2025. In addition, the protective clause should not only apply to old-age pensions.
Pensioners’ Association President disappointed
Pensioners’ Association President Peter Kostelka reacted accordingly with disappointment to the Chancellor’s statement in a broadcast. “This is an outright refusal to talk and therefore a departure from the successful principle of social partnership. The Chancellor misunderstands the situation of older people!”
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Like ÖVP energy spokeswoman Tanja Graf, Nehammer is also calling for changes to the renewable heat law. “The debate in Germany was a wake-up call that we won’t do anything that people don’t support,” said the Chancellor. “We want to work with funding models, the Greens with prohibitions and requirements.” But he isn’t worried that the coalition parties won’t be able to come to an agreement – the two club leaders of the governing parties recently said something similar.
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