Almost all the regulatory texts necessary for the application of the pension reform, in force since September 1, 2023, have been published. But some were late in the summer. Has Retirement Insurance had the time to integrate all the new developments to cope with the coming influx of retirement files? It wants to be reassuring while calling for patience for certain specific cases.
In the spring, the ministerial cabinets announced 31 regulatory texts (27 decrees + 4 decrees) necessary to set the so decried pension reform to music. On the key measures, relating to the age of departure, the texts were published in June, followed a few weeks later for long careers by a circular from the National Old Age Insurance Fund (Cnav). Then the pace of publications accelerated markedly from the end of July. At this stage, everything or almost everything has appeared.
Friday, September 1, the Minister of Labor announced an application rate of 83%. As regulatory publications are published, the list of necessary texts has evolved. Now of the 29 measures calling for regulatory publication, 24 have been published, announced the office of the Minister of Labour, Olivier Dussopt.
There remain measures having, according to the minister, effects well beyond September 1. In short: everything is in place so that the pension reform can be applied without a hitch, from the government’s point of view.
For decrees still pending: if necessary, the files will have to be processed without blocking them
But the Retirement Insurance, clearly the Cnav and the Carsat, which manage the basic pensions, of the general plan, are they really ready? A question that has been around for weeks. Several union sources have very clearly posed the question of the overload generated by the reform for pension administration.
Two-thirds of retirements in September completed
For simple retirement departure files in the coming weeks, the Cnav wants to be reassuring: the files concerned could begin to be processed from mid-July since the parametric measures (legal age, duration of insurance, long careers) have the subject of an early decree, on June 4.
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About two thirds of the files with a starting point on September 1, 2023 (for payment on October 9) have already been completed, the others are in progress, replies Cnav MoneyVox, Friday September 1. We are at the pace we had planned.
Patience for special cases
Following the first decrees relating to the notions of age, many other texts have been published, including the complex mechanism of the minimum contributory for small pensions, details on the redemption of quarters, on the periods of internships formerly not counted, etc.
Measures for which the decrees were for the most part only published in the middle of August… These new features will gradually be integrated, answers the Cnav: We are going to adapt our services and offer new ones for the application of these measures, the Retirement Insurance in particular referring to a forthcoming online service for declaring community work or internships? A specific service expected by the end of September.
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Remain the grip of decrees yet to appear. Texts which, according to the Minister of Labor, do not concern the greatest number, nor do they have any short-term impact. The Cnav evokes for example a measure opening additional quarters for volunteer firefighters, among the decrees still in the draft state. In the absence of official text, it will be necessary if necessary to treat the files without blocking them and to carry out a revision once the decree appeared, underlines the Retirement insurance.
Retirement insurance: reinforced staff in the face of the influx of requests
Will the National Old Age Insurance Fund and the Carsats succeed in absorbing the avalanche of requests that await them (and which have already begun to arrive in recent weeks)? On the union side, skepticism was clearly in order. And it is still too early a few days after the entry into force of the reform to know if Cnav and Carsat will be overwhelmed. But the Retirement Insurance says MoneyVox have recruited accordingly: 300 additional permanent contracts at the national level prior to the entry into force of the reform. Recruitment distributed in different territories according to needs. In addition, additional recruitments are possible in 2024 depending on the evolution of the situation.