The Retirement Orientation Council (COR), criticized at the start of the year by Matignon for its lack of readability, decided on Thursday not to put forward its most optimistic scenarios, from its next report expected in mid-June.
The cleaning continues in the forecasts of the COR. Already gone from twelve to eight scenarios last year, the organization has chosen to focus on four hypotheses from this year, during its traditional meeting to prepare the annual report.
Exit therefore the options based on a constant effort of the State, relegated to the appendix. Because if the public pension schemes make savings in the future, it is not up to the COR to decide on the use of this leewayaccording to the documents presented during this meeting, and of which AFP obtained a copy.
There will therefore remain, in the body of the report, only the forecasts which reflect the current legislation of the pension system, where the State is content to ensure the financial balance of the special schemes (SNCF, RATP, EDF) and those of public service.
The next projections will, however, show the gap between revenue and expenditure, so that the reduction in State contributions appears in a simple and visible manner.
If this choice – approved by the members of the COR, including the unions – was not dictated by the government, it nevertheless intervenes three months after an epic launched by the Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne. In January, she felt that there are a lot of assumptions in the COR report and judged that this may affect the readability of its conclusions.
Ms. Borne then reacted to the remarks of the president of the COR, Pierre-Louis Bras, who had declared a few days before the National Assembly that the expenses of retirement do not drape. Simple reminder of the findings of his institution, that the opponents of the reform had not failed to turn against the executive.
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