100,000 Greek citizens are receiving their pensions from the German state, wrote German newspaper Rheinische Post.
Rentenversicherung data shows that the number of Greek pensioners eligible for a German pension has more than doubled since 1990, the year of German reunification, to 1.76 million people, from 780,000. That amounts to 7% of all pensions in Germany.
Almost one million pensions are being payed by the German Pensions Desk to pensioners from countries such as Italy (373,000); Spain (226,000); Greece (100,000); France (87,000), and Turkey (70,000).
According to Rentenversicherung, the increase in Greek pensions from Germany is attributed to the rise in immigration of workers to Germany from Italy; Spain; Greece; the former Yugoslavia, and Turkey in the 1960s and 1970s, who contributed to social security through their wages.
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