The Bundestag enacted legislation last Friday that will retain special state-funded pensions for victims of Nazism from what was formerly East Germany.
The measure was needed because the laws applying to the state-run pension fund contain no reference to persecutees of the Nazi regime.
Its passage was a success for the German Jewish community and other organizations which had lobbied against plans to abolish the special pension altogether.
Between 200 and 300 Jews from former East Germany are eligible for the monthly stipend of 1,400 marks, nearly $900.
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