According to the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt, “to return to this point would be to give up the return to the balance of the system”. But for the chairman of the pension orientation council, “retirement expenses are generally stabilized” and “do not slip”.
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He closed the door to a decrease in the government on the postponement of the legal retirement age at 64. The Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, said on Monday, January 23, that “to return to this point would be to give up the return to the balance of the system”.
“The age measures that we take”, the recovery of the legal age (64 years in 2030) and the acceleration of the extension of the duration of contribution (forty-three years from 2027) “allow to bring the system back to balance in 2030 “; These measures are “completely fundamental”, argued Mr. Dussopt during the report to the press of the Council of Ministers.
“Return to this point would be to give up the return to balance and therefore lack responsibility for future generations”, he added, while recognizing that the government has “a disagreement with trade union organizations”, Wind standing against any measure relating to legal age.
Introduce “more justice”
The project of budgeting budget of social security in which the pension reform is registered, presented to the Council of Ministers on Monday, is the bearer of “18 billion euros in savings by 2030”, said M. Dussopt.
According to the government, these savings are supposed to balance the system and introduce “more justice”, with in particular a minimum pension noted at 1,200 euros gross for a full career, which must concern 1.8 million of current pensioners and around 200,000 new retirees each year.
Taking into account long careers, improvement of the professional prevention account (for arduousness), index on the employment of seniors with a financial sanction in the event of non-publication for companies with more than three hundred employees , Deletion of special regimes … The Minister of Labor and his colleague from the Public Service, Stanislas Guerini, have sparked the fundamental points of the bill.
no “slippage” of pensions, according to the COR
questioned about the possibility that the text is modified during the parliamentary debate, Mr. Dussopt replied:
“Whenever a amendment will allow us to improve the text without giving up the return to balance in 2030, nor the fundamentals of the reform, obviously we will be open.”
For his part, the president of the Pension Orientation Council (Cor), Pierre-Louis Bras, gave another bell sound concerning the balance of the system, during a hearing in the National Assembly, Thursday, January 19. According to him, “expenses do not slip (…). Pensions expenses are generally stabilized and, even in the very long term, they decrease in three hypotheses out of four,” said Mr. Bras, leaning on The latest annual report of COR , which projects four scenarios economical.
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Also according to him, “in one hypothesis, we return to balance in 2045; in the hypothesis which serves as a reference in the context of the reform, the deficit continues until 2070”. And to conclude: “The government (…) made a choice.”