A week before the public presentation of the pension reform, Elisabeth Borne said that “the retirement age at 65 is not a totem”. The Prime Minister also insisted that “we will not go beyond 43 years of contribution. (…) No one will have to work 47, 48 years.”
The pension reform will be presented on January 23 in the Council of Ministers, announced Tuesday Elisabeth Borne, reaffirming that the postponement of the legal age of departure to 65 years was “not a totem”. The text will then be examined in the National Assembly in early February, announced the Prime Minister on Tuesday on franceinfo, without specifying whether it will be an amending budget or an ordinary bill. Elisabeth Borne, who receives union and employer leaders on Tuesday and Wednesday at Matignon, must unveil on January 10 the content of this emblematic reform of the second five-year term of Emmanuel Macron, who had pledged during the presidential campaign to raise the legal age. from 62 to 65, before saying he was open to a postponement to 64.
Other solutions?
“We have worn the 65th birthday” but “it is not a totem”, declared the Prime Minister, indicating that she was studying “other solutions which make it possible to achieve our objective”, namely “the balance of the system of retirement by 2030”. On the other hand, the government will not go “beyond 43 years of contribution for a full pension”, as already provided for by a previous reform. “No one will have to work 47 or 48,” she said. Similarly, “the age of cancellation of the haircut (…) will not change, it will remain at 67,” she added.
In addition, the revaluation of small pensions, to 85% of the Smic – or around 1,200 euros net – for a full career, should only concern future retirees. “My priority is that it is the active people who will have to work a little longer who benefit from it”, she explained.