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As the country with the European Union’s fastest ageing population, Germany has repeatedly adjusted its pension system to avert
As the country with the European Union’s fastest ageing population, Germany has repeatedly adjusted its pension system to avert
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2018-06-28
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As the country with the European Union’s fastest ageing population, Germany has repeatedly adjusted its pension system to avert a slow-motion demographic disaster. The biggest reform came during Angela Merkel’s first term as chancellor. Then, as now, Christian Democrats were yoked with Social Democrats in a "grand coalition". In 2007 the coalition decided that the normal retirement age should gradually rise from 65 to 67.
Mrs Merkel has since preached similar demographic and economic wisdom to most of her EU partners, criticizing France in particular for straying off the right path. So it comes as something of a shock that Mrs Merkel, now in her third term and running another grand coalition, is reversing course. On the campaign trail for last September’s election, she promised to raise pensions for older mothers. The Social Democrats countered with promises to let certain workers retire at 63 instead of 65. As coalition partners, they will do both at once.
It falls to Andrea Nahles, the labour minister and a Social Democrat who likes to wave the banner of "social justice" , to push the pension package through parliament by the summer so that it can take effect on July 1st. A previous reform let women with children born after 1992 treat three of their stay-at-home maternity years if they had worked and paid full pension contributions. The new "mother pension" will be for the 8m-9m women who took time off for children before 1992. They will be allowed to count two of those years, instead of just one, as working years for pension purposes.
The second part of Mrs Nahles’s reforms, retirement at 63, is aimed at people who have contributed to the pension system for at least 45 years. But Mrs Nahles wants to count not only years spent working or caring for children or other family members but also periods of short-term unemployment. Separately, she will also boost the pensions of people who cannot work due to disability, and spend more money to help them to recover.
Individually, these proposals may seem noble-minded. But as a package, the plan is "shortsighted and one-sided," thinks Axel Bersch-Supan, a pension adviser at the Munich Centre for the Economics of Ageing. It benefits the older generation, which is already well looked after, at the expense of younger people who will have to pay higher contributions or taxes. "The financial and psychological costs of the pension at 63 are disastrous," Mr Bersch-Supan says. There will no longer be any incentive to keep working longer. In some cases, people may, in effect, retire at 61, register as unemployed for two years, and then draw their full pensions.
Andrea Nahles’s pension reforms focus on the following parts except______.
选项
A、retirement age
B、working mothers
C、handicapped people
D、unemployed women
答案
D
解析
细节题。根据Andrea Nahles定位到第三、四两段。题干大意:以下哪项不是安吉拉-默克尔养老金改革关注的部分?[A]retirement age“退休年龄”;[B]working mothers“有工作的母亲”;[C]handicapped people“残疾人士”;[D]unemployed women“无业女性”。第三段提到:A previous reform let women with children born after 1992 treat three of their stay-at-home maternity years if they had worked and paid full pension contributions.其中women with children=mothers;they had worked=working;故该句涉及[B]working mothers;[B]不符合答案要求。第四段首句提到:The second part of Mrs Nahles’s reforms,retirement at 63…该项涉及[A]retirement age;故[A]可以排除。倒数第二段最后一句提到:Separately,she will also boost the pensions of people who cannot work due to disability…其中people who cannot work due to disability=handicapped people;故[C]也可以排除。原文只有[D]unemployed women没有提及,[D]符合答案要求。
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