Just candidate, the head of the outgoing state wants the French to work longer if it is re-elected.
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This is now official: Emmanuel Macron wants to pass the legal age of retirement from 62 to 65 years, if he wins the presidential election. Gabriel Attal, the government spokesman, said it, Thursday, March 10, on RTL, confirming information delivered the day before the daily Les Echos. This is “a reform of responsibility” and “justice”, pleaded Mr. Attal, emphasizing the “choice of society” that will be offered to voters: “Do we still want to finance Protection for the French and investing for the French? We say yes, has he launched. Do we think we have to do it by increasing taxes? We say no. and therefore You have to work more. “
Unveiling such a measure does not constitute a surprise, the Head of State having already expressed this intention during his televised speech of 9 November 2021. Similarly, during his declaration of application on March 3, In his letter to the French, the tenant of the Elysée had already written: “We will have to work more and continue the decline in taxes weighing on work and production.” One way to manifest his determination to revive a site. Suspended in March 2020 because of the health crisis, before announcing his abandonment a year and a half later.
But Mr. Macron’s approach today, is different from the project he had defended during the first half of his mandate. At the time, the objective was to converge the quarantine of existing regimes into a universal system, without calling into question the 62-year rule, but by establishing an age-pivot from which the insured persons would be entitled to a pension. Full rate.
The diagram that is now emerging is, at the same time, simpler and more radical. Ultimately, it will be necessary to wait for its 65 e anniversary to assert its rights to retirement. The recovery will be gradual, at a rate of four months per year of birth (62 years and four months for the first generation affected, 62 years and eight months for the second, etc.). In total, the process should separate until 2033. Derogations will be maintained in several situations: people having started working early, disability, inability, etc. For these categories, the age of rights are expected to be 62 years, compared to 60 at present.
Finance social measures
The purpose displayed is twofold. Mr. Macron first wants to ensure the financial sustainability of the pension system, whose deficit reached 13 billion euros in 2020, the return to balance not planned before the first half of the 2030s, D After the latest projections of the pension guidance board. By passing the age of openness to 65 years, the “president-candidate” discounts the savings on pension expenses, up to € 15 billion by 2030. This manne would serve to consolidate the plans. , to finance social measures and to bring a small bolling of budget air in other sectors of the welfare state. Mr. Macron also aims to bring France closer to European standards: in several countries, such as Italy, the United Kingdom or Germany, the retirement age is between 65 and 67.
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