The Labor Minister, Olivier Dussopt, defends on Sunday at the JDD a “redistributive” pension reform aimed at “reestablishing maximum equality”, on the eve of its presentation to the Council of Ministers, confirming in passing that the increase in small pensions will also affect current retirees.
The bill “will include the revaluation of reduced pensions for current retirees who have worked all their lives for the minimum wage, not only future ones”, who will receive “an increase in their pension of up to 100 euros per month”. This will affect some 200,000 new retirees per year and “1.8 million current retirees”, he specifies, compared to the two million mentioned so far.
A “redistributive” reform
“This reform is redistributive”, insists Olivier Dussopt, citing the impact study of the bill, which “shows an increase of almost 5% for the 20% of the lowest pensions, compared to less than 1% for the 20 % of highest pensions”. Regarding women’s pensions, always according to the impact study, “in the long term” their increase “will be twice that of men (+ 2.2% compared to + 0.9%)”, he underlines .
Despite raising the legal age from 62 to 64, the effective start age is today 62.9 and “in reality it will only move about six months on average, and only three months for those with the lowest pensions” thanks to the device in favor of long careers, argues the minister, for whom in this reform “there are no losers”.
For Dussopt, the government “has achieved (its) objective”
When asked if it is not unfair that workers who started contributing at 20 must always contribute at 44 and not at 43, the Minister replied that some “are leaving today with 44 years of contributions when the law requires only 42”. “We are closing this gap,” he insists.
With this reform, “we have achieved our objective: to restore maximum equality”, summarizes Olivier Dussopt, who also points out that by maintaining the retirement age at full rate at 67, “the gap between the minimum duration and the duration The maximum amount of work to go out at full rate will never have been so low” and that the maximum bonus will go “from 25% to 15%”.
Source: BFM TV
