The Senate is alarmed by the drift in social accounts and denounces the government’s lack of strategy. Like every year, he pleads for a pension reform and an increase in the retirement age.
Denouncing a financial trajectory at the “sdoubtful sincerity“, the Senate, with a majority on the right, says it is skeptical of”the optimism of the numbersdisplayed by the government and worried aboutthe absence of a recovery strategy» Social security accounts. While the Social Security financing bill (PLFSS) arrives at the Luxembourg Palace, after being adopted by forceps in the Assembly via 49-3, the battle promises to be tough once again.
Even though spending should climb to an unprecedented level of 600 billion euros, the government promises to reduce the “hole” of Social Security to 6.8 billion euros in 2023 (after a deficit of 39.7 billion in 2020 linked to Covid). A tour de force that is not very credible according to the senators. This hoped-for recovery is based onassumptions considered too optimistic” and “does not rely on any measures included in this PLFSS“, said Thursday Élisabeth Doineau (Centrist Union), general rapporteur of the Social Affairs Committee at the Palais…
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