The devil is often in the details. In his general policy speech, Sébastien Lecornu announced the suspension of the pension reform until 2027, which technically allows people born between 1964 and 1968 to retire three months earlier than planned. But not everyone will be affected. In fact, the amending letter that provides for this suspension does not include those who already benefit from early departure through the long-term system, according to the newspaper. The Parisianconfirmed by AFP.
In 2024, of the 652,000 personal pensions assigned to the general regime, there were 118,252 “long-career” pensions, or 18% of the total, according to the National Old-Age Insurance Fund (CNAV).
The suspension of the pension reform, added to the social security budget bill, will not affect these future retirees, a source close to the matter told AFP. The suspension would only affect “common law, long careers are not affected,” the CFTC’s number one, Cyril Chabanier, explained to AFP after a meeting at the Ministry of Labor on Friday afternoon. Cyril Chabanier also claims to have “doubts” after this meeting about how this suspension will be applied.
“The PS drinks the chalice to the dregs”
The generations of 1964 and 1965 are the only ones who, thanks to the suspension planned by the Lecornu government, could work a quarter less than initially planned with the pension reform of 2023. For Denis Gravouil, of the CGT, “it would be a new scandal within the scandal” if the “long careers” were left out of the suspension. “There is already a trick with this suspension that is really only a one-year delay,” he said. “The PS drinks the chalice to the dregs. And those who expected are disappointed. Censorship!”, wrote the coordinator of Francia Insumisa, Manuel Bompard, on Friday morning in X, reacting to this issue of the non-inclusion of long races.
As a reminder, the suspension of the reform allows people born in 1964 to leave at 62 years and nine months (compared to 63 years with the reform), those born in 1965 at 63 years (compared to 63 years and three months), and so on until reaching 64 years for future retirees born in 1969.
Source: BFM TV
