The 49 euro ticket, which will become the 58 euro ticket from January 2025, still leaves many questions unanswered for pensioners.
49 euro ticket: Even with 58 euro tickets, there is no specific discount for pensioners
Since May 1, 2023, people with the 49 euro ticket have been able to use public transport nationwide. As of January 1, 2025, this will now become the 58 euro ticket, as the state transport ministers have announced. But it's not just purely digital access that could cause problems for seniors if they want to travel across the country with the Deutschlandticket.
- Because even if there are always unconcrete ideas about this, there are still some There is no existing cheaper tariff for pensioners.
- The upcoming 58-euro ticket cannot be said to provide relief for pensioners in every federal state. In Hesse and Bavaria, for example, there are already other significantly cheaper public transport monthly offers. In North Rhine-Westphalia, seniors can travel with the Schöne60Ticket for from 171.10 euros per month, so they save again with the 58-euro ticket.
- The managing director of the environmental association BUND, Antje von Brook, expressed criticism of the lack of price gradation of the previous 49 euro ticket for seniors at the end of 2022 and called for “significantly cheaper social tariffs” for the future ticket.
- Regina Görner, the chairwoman of the Federal Working Group of Senior Citizens' Organizations – BAGSO for short – also spoke to the BILD newspaper clearly in favor of pensioners also having to be able to get the ticket at the counter or machine. Purely digital access excludes older people. It is now possible to purchase the ticket as a plastic card and also in paper form for a limited period of time.
- For those who feel more at home in the digital world, there are apps with which you can buy the Deutschlandticket, soon to be a 58-euro ticket, including the Deutschlandticket app from Hansecom Public Transport Ticketing Solutions and your Deutschlandticket from Mobility Inside.
- Alternatively, people with demonstrably low income can buy the “Deutschlandticket Sozial” as a monthly subscription for 39 euros. However, only people who live on unemployment benefit II, citizens' and social benefits, social assistance and housing benefit and who fall into benefit categories according to Book VIII of the Social Security Code, the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act and the Federal Supply Act are entitled to this.