The 142,000 retired civil servants in Baden-Württemberg now also receive a flat-rate energy price allowance of 300 euros. The leaders of the Greens and CDU decided on Wednesday evening in the budget commission. The costs for this amount to 45 million euros and are to be financed from the current 2022 budget, a spokesman for the Ministry of Finance announced after the end of the meeting in Stuttgart. After the federal government relieved not only the pensioners but also the retired federal civil servants, the state is now also helping the pension recipients. The money will be paid out in December.

CDU faction leader Manuel Hagel said the measure also had something to do with equal treatment. "It is only right and logical that, in addition to employees, the self-employed and pensioners, we also relieve the burden on pensioners - including, for example, many former police officers - in Baden-Württemberg."