During a meet-the-voter TV show on Thursday night, a cleaning lady asked Chancellor Angela Merkel a question that raised the issue of old-age poverty - leaving her struggling to come up with an answer.
The German central bank's call for people to work until age 69 has reignited a fierce debate in Europe's fast-ageing top economy, with analysts backing it while politicians show their opposition ahead of key elections.
A mistake at the pensions office in Essen meant that a woman with a part-time job was asked to pay €4,632,124,357,000,001 in contributions – more than a thousand times Germany's GDP in 2014.
Low unemployment and high wages among the young mean Germany's 20.5 million pensioners can expect a higher income from July, after the Social Affairs Ministry said pensions would be increased by up to 2.5 percent.
Teachers all over the country are expected to stike starting Monday, German education trade union GEW said, after negotiations with the wage commission of the federal states (TdL) failed to achieve results.
Germanwings, the low-cost subsidiary of German airline Lufthansa, said it has cancelled close to 340 outbound flights
from Germany on Thursday and Friday owing to a strike by pilots.
The parliamentary representative of trade union IG Bau hopes that a new strategy will make more room for families in German cities: Pay pensioners to downsize, he says.
A study comparing quality of life for older people around the world has ranked Germany 5th out of 96 countries. How good a place is Germany for the elderly?
Many teachers can't wait to put down the chalk and retire, but not this one. A 65-year-old German teacher desperate to carry on working has won his case. Forced retirement would be ageism, the court said.
A plan to force all Germany's self-employed people to set up a pension has been torpedoed by a parliamentary committee, after a protest petition attracted 80,000 signatures.
Young Germans are more optimistic than ever, with a survey on Thursday revealing that 95 percent think they're set up for a good future, despite the fact not that many of them take saving for old age seriously.
Germany has provoked anger by demanding tax payments from people living in Austria but receiving pensions relating to work they carried out in Germany.
Just 23 percent of Germans would accept a pay cut in exchange for reducing their working hours, according to a survey released amid a new push for a 30-hour workweek in Germany.
Women have considerably less in personal assets and savings than their live-in male partners, new statistics showed on Sunday, suggesting that even married women are more likely than their spouses to end up living in poverty in later life.
More Germans than ever before are taking early retirement, according to new figures released on Thursday. A record number put their feet up early in 2011, opting to take a reduced pension in order to enjoy more free-time.
A German teacher who went into early retirement on a state pension after he was classified as too sick to work was found to be earning €9,900 a month in Switzerland. A court this week handed him a €20,000 fine for pension fraud.
Senior citizens in Germany have seen a fifth of their buying power disappear since 2000, with the elderly in the former East Germany losing the most, new data shows.
