Stopping the future announcements of the government on pension reform, the High Commissioner for Plan recommends an increase in employer contributions so that “everyone takes a step”.
MO12345LEMONDE with AFP
“The French, through the State and Parliament, are free to decide what they use their budget. Still, they must be perfectly informed, since in the end it is they who will pay. And until now they were not, “notes François Bayrou, in a Maintenance published this Sunday, December 11 in the Sunday Journal .
While the Prime Minister, Elisabeth Borne, is due to present the main lines of the pension reform on Thursday, the cornerstone of the second five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, the president of the Modem, who piloted the general high commission For an enlightened debate involving everyone and warns the majority against any precipitation.
“It is a debate between specialists, government on the one hand, social partners on the other. However, citizens, retired or assets, should be the first interested. necessary pedagogy effort “, notes Mr. Bayrou in response to Renaissance executives who judge that the debate around the reform was decided during the presidential and legislative campaigns.
Do not” cut short the debates ”
After a short consultation, the details of the pension reform is emerging: the government wants to keep the course on a departure at 65 and plans to use a budgetary text to pass the reform, which would allow it to use to the constitutional weapon of 49.3. All unions, including CFDT, are hostile and threatens a large day of mobilization in January.
“The 49.3 is a normal institutional weapon. But we must not enter this reform with the idea that we will cut short the debates”, warns François Bayrou, while advancing his own recommendations.
The General High Commissioner for Planning made public on Thursday a note on pensions offering several levers, including a postponement of the starting age and an extension of the duration of contributions. Based on the analyzes already published by the Pension Orientation Council (COR), the Pensions Monitoring Committee (CSR) and France Strategy, the note estimates that a postponement of the starting age – two scenarios at 64 years or at 64.2 years are mentioned – coupled with an elongation of the contribution duration would be “a powerful lever for improving the financial balance of regimes”, generating between 10 and 20 billion euros, which represent “approximately A third of the need “annual financing by 2047.
The president of the MoDem also recommends increasing retirement employer contributions, from 16.5 % to 17.5 % of gross salary. “This is one of the levers on which we can play, but the government does not wish to touch it today,” he adds. “To resolve such a serious imbalance, perhaps it would be necessary for everyone to take a step.”