Is this a concession made first to the right or to the social partners? Tuesday, January 10, the Minister of Labor, Oliver Dussopt, indicated that the collection of Agirc-Arrco supplementary pension contributions will not be entrusted to the Urssaf network. This arbitration was made public during the press conference that several members of the government held to present the reform of the pension plans. He returns to a measure denounced by the unions, the employers but also by the elected representatives of the groups Les Républicains (LR) in Parliament, which is not completely insignificant, at a time when the executive is seeking support to pass his bill pushing back the legal retirement age to 64.
Tuesday’s announcement is part of a battle of scavengers, which has been going on for several years. During Emmanuel Macron’s first term, the decision was taken to transfer to Urssaf the collection of Agirc-Arrco contributions, provided by several private social protection groups. This change, carried out within the framework of an old approach which includes other institutions of our social protection system, was justified by three objectives: to simplify the life of companies, to reduce management costs, to increase the yield of the puncture.
Originally, the handover was scheduled for 1er January 2022. But it has been pushed back twice – first to 1er January 2023 then on 1er January 2024 – under pressure from employers’ and employees’ organisations, which lead Agirc-Arrco. They expressed serious doubts about Urssaf’s ability to calculate the rights of insured persons – a complex operation that falls to the teams of social protection groups under the banner of Agirc-Arrco (Klesia, Malakoff Humanis, etc.).
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The social partners have also accused the public authorities of wanting to get their hands on the financial reserves of the scheme (just over 60 billion euros) and take control over the flow of contributions. ” The transfer (…) paves the way for a levy” of the State, launched, at the beginning of the autumn of 2022, Geoffroy Roux de Bézieux, the president of the Medef.
The fear of the employers’ leader is accentuated by the fact that the coffers of Agirc-Arrco display insolent health. In 2021, they generated a surplus of 2.6 billion euros and the performance should be much higher in 2022, as well as in the years to come, thanks to the pension reform: as workers will work longer due to raising the age of entitlement to 64 years, pension expenditure will be reduced and contribution receipts will increase, which can only be beneficial for the scheme’s accounts.
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