I FULLY support Mr Allan's letter regarding pensions. However, the German pension is not 75 per cent of individual current average earnings.
They get considerably less than a percentage of the £30,000 he quotes. Mine will be less than the UK pension!
And it is all taxable and we must pay our health insurance, nursing insurance, and East German tax out of the pension, however low it is.
Germany lags behind the UK in many areas, but unfortunately in the area of tax and clawback of pensions, we are well advanced.
D ALLEN, Sud-Gohlis, Leipzig, Germany.
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