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Budget 2025: retirees could be called upon to reduce the debt
The French government must find 60 billion euros to reduce France’s deficit to 5% in 2025. If 20 billion came from rising taxes, there would still be 40 billion to find. One of the options being considered is to make savings on retirees’ pensions. Thus, the revaluation of pensions could be postponed from January to July, saving four billion euros.
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The French government must find 60 billion euros to reduce France’s deficit to 5% in 2025. If 20 billion came from rising taxes, there would still be 40 billion to find. One of the options being considered is to make savings on retirees’ pensions.
To renovate his house, Éric Simon decided to do everything himself to save money. His adjustment pension will not be increased on January 1, but on July 1, six months later. He receives 1,900 euros net per month. If his pension had been increased in January, he would have received around forty additional euros per month: “It would have been nice to be able to consume a little and buy better quality staple foods.”
While the economic situation is worrying in France, this measure could allow the State to free up around three billion euros in 2025 and would affect 17 million retirees. They are not necessarily satisfied with this idea: “There is money to be taken elsewhere, it is always the same people who are concerned and who are penalized,” deplores a retiree.
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