 Guaranteed minimum pension benefits for all West Germans were introduced, along with automatic pension increases for war widows (1970).Fixed minimum rates for women in receipt of very low pensions were also introduced, together with equal treatment for war widows.Improvements in pension provision were made for women and the self-employed, a new minimum pension for workers with at least twenty-five years' insurance was introduced, faster pension indexation was implemented, with the annual adjustment of pensions brought forward by six months, and the Seventh Modification Law (1973) linked the indexation of farmers' pensions to the indexation of the general pension insurance scheme.