Refugees from Ukraine get a pension 10 years earlier? False claim!

Social envy is a very common trait.
In some cases this may well be well founded, but it is worse when social envy, combined with hatred of refugees, is stirred up without there being any basis for it. A current example is the claim that refugees from Ukraine are allowed to retire 10 years earlier in Germany - but the pure claim already contains a glaring error .

The claim

The claim is circulating as slightly different sharepics (sometimes a direct screenshot, sometimes photographed from a smartphone):

The claim in full:

“The retirement age of German payers is 67 years.
According to the decision of the traffic light coalition, Ukrainian refugees (women from 57, men from 60) who have never paid in are allowed to empty these pots 10 years before the depositors!
This instruction was sent to the responsible employees of the job centers via email today.”

The earliest source of the claim discovered so far is a Telegram channel (archived HERE ), in which a lot of conspiracy myths, always marked with the common QAnon abbreviations and tags, almost step on each other's toes.

Pretty much everything in the claim is false

It's best to start with what is actually true about the claim, because that's quicker: the first sentence. In fact, the retirement age of Germans is 67 years, although this depends on the year of birth (see HERE ): For insured people born in 1964 or later, the standard age limit of 67 years applies, earlier years can retire earlier, someone born in 1956, for example, at 65 years and 10 months.

The retirement age in Ukraine

This actually differs from the retirement age in Germany. In Ukraine there is also a distinction between men and women in this regard (see HERE ). But this does not mean that the Ukrainian system applies to Ukrainians living in Germany!

Pension in Germany

In order to be entitled to a pension in Germany, you have to work in Germany for at least 5 years (see HERE ). The retirement age is also uniform in Germany and there is no distinction between the genders.

But maybe the working hours in Ukraine are taken into account?

No .
This would only be possible if a person previously lived in an EU country or if a social security agreement was concluded with the country. But Ukraine is neither in the EU (see HERE ), nor has a social security agreement been finally concluded with Ukraine (see HERE ).

And what about the email to all job center employees?

We would like to know that too. An email was never shown. But that may also be because the job center has nothing to do with it at all. The German Pension Insurance (DRV) is responsible for pension applications (see HERE ) - so if there were ever such an instruction, DRV employees would receive it.

But apparently this ominous email has not yet been leaked by any of almost 25,000 employees . Only a Telegram channel close to QAnon claims it, of course without any evidence.

Conclusion

The claim that refugee Ukrainians in Germany would receive pensions earlier simply feeds the xenophobic narrative that refugees would empty the pension pot of Germans and therefore pension contributions would rise. However, there is nothing true about the claim!

Additional source: Correctiv

Also interesting:

Allegedly, the “Stern” called Zelenskyj “King of Lies” on a cover cover a year ago.
But the fake was created very sloppily and is easy to see through. Sloppy fake: No, the “Stern” did not call Zelenskyj “King of Lies”