Leipzig (dpa/sn) - The number of new pensioners in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia has remained stable. In Saxony, 44,386 insured persons received an old-age pension from the statutory pension insurance for the first time in the previous year, 26,817 in Saxony-Anhalt and 25,465 in Thuringia, as the German pension insurance Central Germany announced on Friday. The figures were thus at a similar level as in the previous year.
Of the almost 97,000 new pensioners in the three countries, a good 38,200 were granted a pension for a particularly large number of insurance years. Insured persons who are at least 63 years old and have completed an insurance period of 45 years can claim this old-age pension.
A good 28,600 men and women have paid into the pension insurance for at least 35 years and received a pension for the first time. The other pensions accrued to severely disabled people and the expiring old-age pension for women and due to unemployment or partial retirement work.
The Deutsche Rentenversicherung Mitteldeutschland, headquartered in Leipzig, paid out around 1.01 million old-age pensions in Saxony, Saxony-Anhalt and Thuringia at the end of 2021.
