While the deputies have just voted on the measures in favor of purchasing power in the National Assembly, Bruno Le Maire, the Minister of the Economy, promised on France Inter this Wednesday morning a new increase in retirement pensions in 2023 He assured to take the “commitment that in January 2023 there will also be a new revaluation, because inflation will increase by then”.
An amendment proposing 500 million euros for pensions refused
The deputies voted, last Thursday, the revaluation of 4% of pensions and social benefits, due to the acceleration of inflation. But during the debates on the amending budget this week, and while the deputies voted the second part of measures on the purchasing power on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, the government pushed the deputies to reject an amendment of the opposition, which provided 500 million euros for a more substantial increase in pensions. Bruno Le Maire justified himself by the fact that this revaluation would have been “financed by deducting sums from civil and military state pensions“.