The Minister of Labor confirms in an interview with the “Journal du Dimanche” that the rise in small pensions will also concern current retirees.
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On the eve of presenting in the Council of Ministers the bill on pension reform, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt defends, in the Sunday Journal (JDD) of January 22 , a text that aims to be a “redistributive reform”. He confirms that the project has evolved since its presentation to the French on January 10, in particular on the theme of small pensions whose increase will also concern current retirees.
The bill “will in particular integrate the revaluation of small pensions for current retirees who have worked all their lives in the minimum wage, not only the future”, which will affect “an increase in their pension can go up to 100 euros per month “. This will concern around 200,000 new retirees per year and “1.8 million current retirees”, he specifies, against two million mentioned so far.
“This reform is redistributive”, insists Mr. Dussopt in the JDD, citing the study of the bill of the bill, which “shows an increase of almost 5 % for the 20 % of the lower pensions, Against less than 1 % for the 20 % highest pensions “. As for the pension of women, still according to the impact study, “in the long term” its increase “will be twice as important as that which men will know ( + 2.2 % against + 0.9 %)”, underlines -Al.
Despite the recovery of 62 to 64 years of legal age, the actual starting age is 62.9 years today and “will actually be shifted by approximately six months on average, and Only three months for those who have the weakest pensions “thanks to the device in favor of long careers, argues the minister, for whom in this reform” there are no losers “.
Balance the system “by 2030”
the question of whether it is not unfair that workers who have started to contribute at 20 years old must always contribute 44 years and not 43, the minister retorts that some “leave today after 44 years of subscription When the law requires only 42 “. “We reduce this gap,” he insists.
With this reform, “we have achieved our goal: to restore maximum equality,” says Olivier Dussopt, also stressing that with the maintenance of the full -rate age at 67, “the gap Between the minimum duration and the maximum working time to go at full rate has never been so low “and that the maximum discount will pass” from 25 % to 15 % “.
According to him, this reform will allow “2030” to balance the system. “In 2027, the situation of the system will have improved clearly, of around 8 billion euros, bringing the deficit to 4.6 billion against 12.4 without reform,” he said.
Contested on the street after demonstrations against the reform project which brought together on Thursday, more than a million people in France, the government intends to “build a majority” in the Parliament. “And I hope that the parliamentary debate is rich, of quality, sincere and therefore without obstruction,” adds Mr. Dussopt.