65 plus left behind

Subsidies: This is how seniors are left out

If you don't have access to the Internet, you quickly become a marginalized shadow figure in society. A fate that affects many pensioners in Austria.

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65 plus and left behind: For pensioners in our midst, participation in social life is increasingly difficult thanks to the internet and co.

"Why should I be worse off in old age than when I was younger?" Heidi R. (name changed by the editors) is 80 years old and once again loses out. Like every year, the pensioner is waiting for her widow's pension to be calculated - usually by post.