The government intends to “go beyond 1,100 euros” of “minimum retirement for a full career”, campaign promise of the President of the Republic, to bring it to “around 85% of the net minimum wage”, declares the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt in an interview with Les Echos on Monday evening. “In view of inflation and the revaluation of the minimum wage, we intend to go beyond 1,100 euros, (…) around 85% of the net minimum wage”, or 1,130 euros today, says Olivier Dussopt.
It is a question of creating “a sufficient gap between the minimum old age (953 euros for a single person today) and the minimum pension, in order to value work”, continues the minister, according to whom this “will allow approximately 25% new retirees – and more often women – to have a higher pension”.
Special diets not all concerned
On the eve of the opening of the second round of consultation on the pension reform, Olivier Dussopt also details the special schemes that will be affected by the reform, citing “those of the electricity and gas industries, the RATP or even that of the Banque of France”. For these schemes, the government “favors the grandfather clause, on the model of the SNCF, which closed access to the special scheme for new agents”.
He has no doubt that “the question of the regime of the National Assembly and the Senate will be addressed within the framework of the parliamentary departure”, but he excludes certain regimes, such as those of the sailors or the dancers of the Paris Opera and the French comedy. Asked about the possible shift in the age from which it is possible to go on gradual retirement (60 years), the Minister notes that “when we shift the age of opening of rights, it is logical that the levels are shifted accordingly”.
“The contributions will not finance anything other than pensions”
This logic could apply in particular to the long career system, which allows you to retire earlier when you started working early (before age 20: editor’s note). However, the Minister sees two exceptions: the government does not wish to “shift the age at which the discount is abolished, which is 67”, nor “modify the age limits which allow retirement at the full rate for insured persons who are disabled or unfit at age 62 and for disabled workers at age 55”.
Asked about the direction of the savings made, Olivier Dussopt replies that “not a euro of pension contribution will finance anything other than pensions”. But by promoting the employment of seniors, the reform could also generate more tax and social revenue for the other branches of Social Security, he notes.
Source: Europe1
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