The impact study of the government text, carried out by state services and published Monday, January 23, believes that the reform makes it possible to strengthen “solidarity and equity between the insured” while the unions denounce Its “unfair” and “brutal” character.
by Bertrand Bissuel
What are the impact of the pension reform? This question is at the heart of the criticisms addressed to the government in the face of its project which falls under the legal age of departure at 64 while accelerating the application of the “Touraine law” of January 2014 on the extension of the duration of the contribution for The full rate. All the unions as well as the left, the far right and several right -wing personalities denounce such changes in parameters due to their “unjust” and “brutal” character.
While the text was to be presented, Monday, January 23 in the Council of Ministers, the Executive publishes an “impact study” of which the objective – as its name suggests – is to weigh the fallout from the arrangements made . Directed by the State services, this document displays the words “justice, balance and progress” on the guard page, which corresponds very exactly to the elements of language used by the power in place to promote its approach. The very content of the report is very positive on the reform, thus contradicting all those who oppose it: “Solidarity and equity between the insured” will come out reinforced, it is written, thanks – in particular – to the so -called measures “support” (or social).
Among the findings that capture attention, there is the increase in the amount of retirement “to liquidation”-that is to say when people ask for the payment of the service. The sum paid will increase an average of 0.3 % for the generation of 1962, 0.6 % for those who were born in 1966 and 1.5 % for individuals having seen the light of day in 1972. “This improvement (…) Is much more marked for women “, specifies the study ( + 1 % for generation 1966 and + 2.2 % for the 1972 generation, against + 0.6 % and + 0.9 % men). These “favorable” consequences result from the combination of two factors: the lag of the starting age, which contributes to increasing the rights (the insured contributing longer, overall, on a potentially greater salary), and the boost Given at least pension – this one to reach 85 % of the net minimum wage (about 1,200 euros gross at the end of the summer) for a “full -time full -time career in the minimum wage”.
Strong disparities
For the first generations concerned by the project, the report highlights a “significant” increase in average retirement at the level of the “first four deciles” (that is to say for 40 % of people affecting the are the lower). Such an evolution, largely linked to the increase in the minimum pension, leads Olivier Dussopt, the Minister of Labor, to defend the idea, in an interview with the Sunday of January 22, that the reform is “redistributive”: “It is the poorest pensioners who will see their pension to the liquidation increase the most.”
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