In her editorial for this Friday, April 29, Agnès Verdier-Molinié, director of the IFRAP foundation, discusses the pension reform with the postponement of the age to 65, which should be one of the main measures of Emmanuel’s next five-year term. Macron.
Yes, it looks good and it’s very good news since we have finally understood that we must postpone the retirement age and that we cannot have less and less assets to finance more in addition to pensioners… But there may be several wolves in this reform
First wolf: the president announces that he will abolish the special regimes, does this mean changing the status of new hires as at the SNCF since the 2017 reform? But we did not hear in the campaign that new recruits from communities, hospitals or education would henceforth be hired under private contracts. Remember that the pension scheme for state, local and hospital civil servants is the main special scheme!
This changes a lot of things because the methods of calculating public and private pensions are not at all the same, the pensions of public officials are much more expensive for the community than those of the private sector and therefore the deficits – most of which are hidden – and which can be estimated at around 15 billion euros per year for all the special public schemes – are financed by our taxes. Even if there is a postponement of the age, if we do not abolish all the special regimes, including those of the State agents of the communities and the hospitals, we keep very significant differences in pensions, order of 20%, for identical careers
Moreover, it is not clear in what has been said whether agents who are in the active category will be able to continue to retire earlier…
These are agents who can retire much much earlier than the average worker, at 52 or 57… 55 years and 5 months in the police, 56 years in the prison administration, 60 years and 6 months for customs… in short, well before the age of 62!!! A bit like RATP train drivers who retire at 52…
Clearly we are not sure!! already the pivotal age with a penalty to encourage leaving at 63, it must be remembered, only applies to supplementary pensions for private sector employees…
So there is a good chance that the 65 years will apply especially to private sector employees as well. Haven’t we heard ministers say that caregivers, nurses would not be affected and some commentators explain that it was a reform for private pensions? we can all the more worry about the fact that hardship criteria should be added and that the unions will do everything to ensure that these criteria apply as much as possible to the public sector (they are already asking for it!). Let us therefore be vigilant in the coming months so that the postponement of the age to 65 also applies to public employees.