Introduced 20 years ago as a part of the 2001 pension reform, the Riester pension is meant to function as an essential … component of the German pension system with the aim of compensating for decreasing public pensions. However, data collected by … the SOEP show that this objective has not yet been achieved. For ten years, use of the Riester pension plan has been …

the number of workers and thus pension contributors at the highest possible level is a key economic policy goal. This … drawing a pension before reaching the normal retirement age, could create the necessary conditions for reaching this goal. The …, which came into effect in 2017, allows people to receive a partial pension payout before the normal retirement age while …

benefit from paying reduced social security contributions while still receiving their full pension entitlements, made possible … principle on which the pension insurance system is based. This Weekly Report investigates the financial scope of the additional … pension entitlements and how targeted this subsidy is. The statutory pension insurance (Gesetzliche Rentenversicherung, GRV …