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Policy Document

Act to Adapt the Legal Age Limit According to the Demographic Development and to Strengthen the Financial Base of the Pension Scheme (from 1945-1990: West Germany)

Year

2008

Country

Germany

Topic

Work & Retirement

Subtopic

Activation Policies 50+

Keywords

Ageing society Ageing workforce Employment opportunities Employment policy Length of working life Older workers Work in old age

Main implications

The retirement age is step by step increased to 67 years of age (depending on the year of birth). Persons who have very long employment histories may under certain conditions still retire at age 65 without pension reductions.

Benefits & Requirements

Read the Law

Original full text source in native language

BGBl. I 2007: 554

Original full text web source in native language

http://www.bgbl.de/xaver/bgbl/start.xav

Author

Nora Sánchez-Gassen
Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research

Data collected in the framework of the Population and Policy Database

Cite as

SPLASH-db.eu (2012): Policy: "Act to Adapt the Legal Age Limit According to the Demographic Development and to Strengthen the Financial Base of the Pension Scheme (from 1945-1990: West Germany)" (Information provided by Nora Sánchez-Gassen). Available at: https://splash-db.eu [Date of access].