François Bayrou is warned. Although the prime minister must present his public finance recovery plan on Tuesday, July 15, unions harden the tone regarding the hypothesis of a sub-indexation of pension pensions compared to inflation, supported by an expert committee. “Cover it from peace for retirees!” I was insurgent Frédéric Souillot, general secretary of Force Ouvrière (FO), during a round table organized by the Association of Social Information Journalists (AJIS) and the Institute for Economic and Social Research (IRES).
Instead of a disintexation of pensions of generalized inflation to all retirees, the leader opens the reflection around a partial sub-indexation. “There are thresholds in indexation, it exists, but we are not told. Because it is too technical, it joked. For François Hollande, it would be for pensions of more than 1,850 euros, for others it would be more than 2,000 euros,” he said.
Put to use the richest retirees
“The subdexation of pensions below inflation means a loss of one month of a pension for five years,” said Denis Gravouil, general secretary of the CGT Federation of the show unions, cinema, audiovisual and cultural action. “Obviously we are against, this is not that the solution is not yet increasing inequalities, without looking, in terms of social justice, the question of the distribution of wealth.”
“We all have in the idea that the poverty rate of retirees is low, but it increases rapidly,” warned Michaël Zemmour, economist and associated researcher in Sciences PO during the round table organized by Ajis and IRES. “It was 8% a few years ago, today is 11%.”
“Take more assets and financial income”
Instead of disappointing pensions, the CGT begs to fiscal reform, especially “on the side of the richest retirees who have the greatest heritage.” “There is money, there is heritage that has increased, which have doubled in 20 years,” Denis Gravouil insisted. If the objective is to concentrate the effort on the rich retirees, “we must generally try to take more of the assets and financial income, and when doing this we will implicitly go to the rich retirees,” said economist Michaël Zemmour.
The desindxation of pensions in relation to inflation is not the taste of the CFDT that presses to raise the amounts of pensions paid to retirees. “There are pension levels that are not acceptable and mentioning them is an absolute necessity, said Yvan Ricordeau, general undersecretary of the CFDT. On the contrary, the subdexation of the pensions of the pensions of the retirees does not inherit the hair of Amir Groundfighi, president of the Confederation of small and medium enterprises (CPME) should not be protected.”
Disindexation is gaining ground in debates
However: the question of involving retirees for financing social protection, whatever their standard of living, is increasing more and more in political debates. If the Minister of Labor, Astrid Panosyan -Bouvet, had raised a shield raising in January, the disindexation of pensions in relation to inflation ended up being admitted to the useful document placed in the pension table, written by the animator of the discussions, Jean -Jacques Marette, in an attempt to respond, in pod. It was then a matter of underestimating pensions of 0.8 points in 2026 and then 0.4 points in the following years.
Source: BFM TV
