“…German civil servants have traditionally been promised a noncontributory, taxsponsored, unfunded, and relatively generous DB-type annuity that depends on retirement age, years in civil service, and final salary. 3 In exchange for this plan, civil servants do not participate in the national social security system nor are they covered by supplementary occupational pensions (Heubeck and Rürup 2000). Over time, civil servant pensions have become less generous: the retirement age, which had been 65, is being raised to 67, and pension accruals have been reduced to approximately 1.79 percent of final salary per service year.…”