On the eve of the opening of the second round of consultation on pension reform, Olivier Dussopt promises an increase in part of the pensions. The government intends to “go beyond 1,100 euros” of “minimum retirement for a full career”, declares the Minister of Labor in an interview with Echoes published Monday evening.
“In view of inflation and the revaluation of the Smic, we intend to go around 85% of the net Smic”, or 1,130 euros today, he says. It is a question of creating “a sufficient gap between the minimum old age (953 euros for a single person today) and the minimum retirement, in order to value the work”. According to the Minister, this “will allow around 25% of new pensioners – and more often women – to have a higher pension”.
The case of special diets
Olivier Dussopt also details the special schemes that will be affected by the pension reform, citing “those of the electricity and gas industries, the RATP or even that of the Banque de France”. For these schemes, the government “favors the grandfather clause, on the model of the SNCF, which closed access to the special scheme for new agents”.
The minister has no doubt that “the question of the regime of the National Assembly and the Senate will be addressed within the framework of the departure from parliament”, but he excludes certain regimes, such as those of sailors or dancers from the Paris Opera and French Comedy.
Asked about the possible shift in the age from which it is possible to go on gradual retirement (60 years), he notes that “when we shift the age of opening of rights, it is logical that the levels are shifted especially “. This logic could apply in particular to the long career system, which allows you to retire earlier when you start working early (before age 20). However, he sees two exceptions: the government does not wish to “shift the age of abolition of the discount which is 67 years old”, nor “modify the age limits which allow retirement at the full rate for the insured disabled or unfit at age 62 and for disabled workers at age 55”.
Asked about the direction of the savings made, Olivier Dussopt replies 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.