# Pension Commission Criticized Over Old-Age Poverty and Retirement at 70

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2068796968164327596
- Source account: [@K_Moessbauer](https://x.com/K_Moessbauer)
- Source language: German
- Target language: English
- Duration: 0:26
- Published: 2026-06-22
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- Original-language version: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4vwh26YvwW8m/de/kritik-an-rentenkommission-altersarmut-und-arbeiten-bis-70.md

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4vwh26YvwW8m/en/pension-commission-criticized-over-old-age-poverty-and-retirement-at-70) Yes, you can tell that only people sit on this pension commission, who don't know at all what old- age poverty means and what it means that some people cannot work until 70, not even now.

[0:07](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4vwh26YvwW8m/en/pension-commission-criticized-over-old-age-poverty-and-retirement-at-70?t=7) Life expectancy in some federal states has actually decreased in recent years.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/4vwh26YvwW8m/en/pension-commission-criticized-over-old-age-poverty-and-retirement-at-70?t=11) Linking the entire retirement age to life expectancy works with the wrong numbers. And I can only urge the government to reverse this, just like the care and health insurance reform, because people in this country are already suffering from these reforms, and they will