AHV financing: GLP wants to relieve families

The qualified nurse and National Councilor Patrick Häß has been in the mighty social and health commission for a month. She will advise AHV reform. And the GLP could bring the crucial voices. Where does the party position itself?

In November 2023, Patrick Häß (46) slipped into the National Council for the GLP. He inherited the newly elected Councilor Tiana Moser. Hardly one and a half years in office, the Zürcher is responsible for the two important dossiers of social and health policy. At the AHV there are important course this year: Should couples get more pension than before? And how do we finance the pension gap in the AHV, which grows in the next fifteen years?

The rope pulling around the securing of the AHV pensions will soon start when Elisabeth Baume Schneider presents the key values ​​of the new reform. It is about several billion francs that the social work will need over the next few years. This means that the decisions will have far -reaching consequences. So where does the GLP position itself?

We meet in a good mood between different appointments at Zurich Central Station.

Mr. Häß, the aging of the Swiss population is progressing. The AHV quickly needs a lot of money. Are we well positioned today?

Patrick Häß: When I see how much births go back, it makes me rather pessimistic. We lack the offspring that finances the pensions of the future. We therefore do well to strengthen the families. For example, by favoring the family foundations. Unfortunately, the opposite is currently happening.

How do you mean that?

The AHV is to be expanded at the expense of the boys, families. We have to stop with that. But the self -proclaimed family party Mitte does exactly that: With her initiative to lift the couple plan, she ultimately pulls out the money from the families.

The initiative wants to dissolve an injustice. When paying the old -age pensions, couples are disadvantaged by the PLAFOND. Together they receive half a pension less than unmarried couples who collect two full pensions. Why shouldn’t this disadvantage finally be fixed?

It is not true that the couples are disadvantaged in the AHV. Married people benefit from left-wing pensions, the widowing surcharge, the liberation of the AHV contribution obligation from non-employed spouses and the spouse splitting. The bottom line is that the couples live better with these advantages than non -marriage.

The GLP also requires that the state should not influence how people have to live. Do the privileges not abolished for one or the other life of life?

Except for the spouse splitting, which is crucial for the protection of women, we can discuss it. However, the GLP rejects a comprehensive abolition of the married couple. This costs the work -related population too much: the young generation would have to pay a further 3.8 billion francs on a klapf. And for retired people who are largely located. If the Plafond is supposed to go, then gradually – and only for new players.

The lifting of the married couple has not yet been decided-in contrast to the 13th AHV pension. There, too, the parliament is aiming for financing through wage costs.

Unfortunately. It is a big mistake. We cannot leave the financing of an additional CHF 5 billion only to younger generations. The generation justice comes completely out of balance. In the future, the grandparents will no longer put the grandchildren at Christmas a fifty -core under the tree. The grandchildren would have to hand over hundreds of francs to the grandparents. We should stop this development.