This Monday evening, on the eve of the opening of the 2nd round of consultation on pension reform, the Minister of Labor Olivier Dussopt announced in a interview with Les Echos
that the government counts “go beyond 1,100 euros” of “minimum pension for a full career” that is “around 85% of the net minimum wage” (1,130 euros). It was one of Emmanuel Macron’s campaign promises. In the meantime, inflation has passed by.
It’s about creating “a sufficient gap between the minimum old age (953 euros for a single person today) and the minimum pension, in order to value the work”continues the Minister, according to which this “will allow around 25% of new retirees – and more often women – to have a higher pension”.
In this interview, Olivier Dussopt also details the special regimes that will be affected by the reform, citing “those of the electricity and gas industries, of the RATP or even that of the Banque de France”. For these plans, the government “favors the grandfather clause, on the model of the SNCF, which closed access to the special regime for new agents”. He has no doubt that “the question of the regime of the National Assembly and the Senate will be addressed within the framework of the parliamentary departure”but it excludes certain schemes, such as those for sailors or dancers at the Paris Opera and the Comédie Française.
Asked about the possible shift in the age from which it is possible to go on gradual retirement (60 years), the Minister noted that “when we shift the age of opening of rights, it is logical that the levels are shifted by as much”. This logic could apply in particular to the long career scheme, which makes it possible to retire earlier when you start working early (before 20, editor’s note). However, the minister sees two exceptions: the government does not want “shift the age of removal of the discount which is 67 years”neither “modify the age limits which allow full retirement for insured persons who are disabled or unfit at age 62 and for disabled workers at age 55”.
Asked about the marking of the savings made, Olivier Dussopt replied that “not a euro of pension contribution will finance anything other than pensions”. But by promoting the employment of seniors, the reform could also generate more tax and social revenue for the other branches of Social Security, he notes.