The Parliament definitively approved this Wednesday afternoon, by final unanimity of the Senate, a LR bill that allows increasing the pensions of self-employed farmers, a long-awaited reform by the agricultural world.
Far from the tensions over the pension reform that delays the legal age from 62 to 64 years, the text of the deputy Julien Dive had been voted unanimously by the National Assembly at the beginning of December. The senators also voted unanimously, without modification, confirming its final adoption.
It provides, from 2026, “to extend to non-salaried agricultural workers”, in particular to farm administrators and “collaborating spouses”, “the calculation of the basic pension on the only twenty-five best years”, and no longer on the his entire professional career.
“The method of calculating our farmers’ pensions is particularly illegible,” stressed the rapporteur for the text in the Senate, Pascale Gruny (LR).
“A new step in equality”
The Social Affairs Committee considered that the text was not “perfect”, but “fully aware of the symbolic importance of this great sign of national support for these women and men to whom we are all indebted, it considered it preferable to ensure the progress achieved through hard fighting,” he said.
Retired property managers receive an average of 1,079 euros gross for a full career (excluding reversion), according to elements of the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA).
This reform constitutes according to the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt “a new step in terms of equality and recognition of farmers”.
On this consensual issue, two laws called Chassaigne 1 and 2 had already been unanimously approved in 2020 and 2021. Promulgated in July 2020, the “Chassaigne law” (named after the deputy and leader of the communist group in the National Assembly André Chassaigne) had increased the pensions of former estate managers to a minimum level of 85% of the net minimum wage.
A second text presented by this same deputy had allowed the small pensions of the collaborating spouses of farmers to be raised in 2021.
Source: BFM TV
