The Minister of Labor, Olivier Dussopt, defends Sunday in the JDD a reform of “redistributive” pensions and intended to “restore a maximum of equality”, on the eve of its presentation to the Council of Ministers, confirming in passing that the increase in small pensions will also concern current pensioners.
The bill will include the revaluation of small pensions for current retirees who have worked all their lives at the minimum wage, not just future ones, who will receive an increase in their pension of up to 100 euros per month. This will concern about 200,000 new withdrawals per year and 1.8 million current withdrawals, he specifies, against two million mentioned so far.
This reform is redistributive, insists Mr. Dussopt, citing the impact study of the bill, which shows an increase of nearly 5% for the 20% of the lowest pensions, against less than 1% for the 20% of the highest pensions. As for women’s pensions, again according to the impact study, in the long term its increase will be twice as large as that which men will experience (+ 2.2% against + 0.9%), he underlines.
Despite the increase in the legal age from 62 to 64, the actual starting age is 62.9 today and will in reality only shift by about six months on average, and only three months for those who have the lowest pensions thanks to the device in favor of long careers, argues the minister, for whom in this reform there are no losers.
Asked whether it is not unfair that workers who started contributing at 20 must always contribute at 44 and not 43, the Minister replied that some leave today after 44 years of contributions when the law does not. requires 42. We are closing that gap, he insists.
With this reform, we have achieved our objective: to restore maximum equality, summarizes Olivier Dussopt, also emphasizing that with the maintenance of the full rate starting age at 67, the gap between the minimum duration and the maximum amount of work to leave full rate will never have been so low and that the maximum discount will drop from 25% to 15%.