Promised by Emmanuel Macron at the start of his first five-year term, the old age law was abandoned in September 2021, due to lack of funding.
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A law which will cover “strategy, finance and governance”. The new Minister of Solidarity Catherine Vautrin committed, Wednesday January 24, to the adoption of“by the end of the year” of an old age law, but which might not be a programming law as initially planned.
Promised by the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron at the start of his first five-year term, the old age law was abandoned by the Castex government in September 2021, due to lack of funding. In November 2023, Elisabeth Borne, then Prime Minister, said she wanted this law to be presented by the summer of 2024 with adoption in the second half of 2024.
A referral to the Council of State in progress
“There is a commitment” of the executive “on this famous old age law”demanded for a long time by professionals in the sector, she declared during a hearing before the Senate Social Affairs Committee devoted to the bill “age well”. But “Article 34 (of the Constitution, Editor’s note) does not provide at this stage for the capacity of a programming law for this type of activity”she said. “There is therefore a referral to the Council of State which is in progress” and which “I should hear back within a month”.
A programming law is carried out by the government and runs over several years, thus giving it a more ambitious character than a proposed law. Whatever the decision of the Council of State, Catherine Vautrin declared to the senators that she took “the commitment to make an old age law and that it be made and voted on by the end of the year”.
