Composed of parliamentarians, social partners and ministers, the Social Security Accounts Committee (CCSS) meets this Tuesday to reflect “levers” of a return to financial balance before 2029, government objective despite a chronic deficit.
The commission “takes an unprecedented scale this year”, with the ambition to “collectively think about the recovery levers”, can be read in a press release from the Executive.
The Government also evokes “a key moment in dialogue and transparency”, with “the launch of the shared work for the Social Security Financing Law by 2026”, the first stage of the site.
“The objective (…) is that we returned to balance before 2029,” said the minister responsible for public accounts, Amélie de Montchalin, during questions in the government in the National Assembly and the Senate last week.
Mrs. de Montchalin will participate in the CCSS meeting (created in 1979) in the Ministry of Economy and Finance, starting at 2:00 PM, along with Catherine Vautrin, Minister of Labor, Health, Solidarity and families. Yannick Neuder and Charlotte Parmentier-Ecocq, the delegated ministers of the latter, will also be present.
No measures, an estimated deficit at 24.8 billion euros
In the absence of measures, the Social Security deficit would be extended at 2029 to 24.8 billion euros, against 21.9 billion planned in 2025, according to the CCSS report from which AFP was aware.
In front of the senators, François Bayrou estimated last week that it would be necessary to “completely resume the question of the financing of our social model.”
The prime minister does not spread any clue, including the “social VAT” denounced by the left and the RN. But “none of the measures” that will compose the future plan to return to the balance of public accounts “stops” for the moment, according to him.
Mr. Bayrou has not excluded that, as an extension of current negotiations on pension reform, social partners are taking the question of financing social protection. The Prime Minister promised to present at the beginning of July “a return plan for the balance of public finances for three or four years.”
Source: BFM TV
