For the year 2022, INSEE has counted 182,000 PACS but these partners who formalize their life together cannot benefit from a share of the deceased spouse’s retirement. Two deputies, including one from the Renaissance majority, are trying to move the lines in the National Assembly. Verdict expected in 2024.
Today, only married people can benefit, under conditions, from the survivor’s pension, this amount of retirement that the deceased spouse should have received during their lifetime. Recently, two deputies decided to tackle the subject to open reversion rights to Pacs partners.
Last June, the deputy Les Rpublicains (LR) Vincent Seitlinger tabled a bill to allow an extension of the right to survivor’s pension to couples united by a civil partnership and thus create equality between married couples and couples linked by a civil union.
At least 5 years of PACS to be entitled to survivorship
This time, it is Renaissance MP Danielle Brulebois who has just submitted a text on the subject but with a reservation: know that the mayor’s signature of the pact is more than 5 years old. For the rest, the arguments are the same, start with the protection of the surviving spouse. The fact also that rights can sometimes benefit surviving ex-spouses, as well as minor or dependent children, also increases the possibility of benefiting from a survivor’s pension.
Why introduce such a provision? For the year 2022, INSEE counted 182,000 civil partnerships and 237,000 marriages in mainland France. At the same time, the 42 pension plans provide that the exclusive beneficiary of a survivor’s pension is always a married person. A reading of the society that should be arranged according to the two elected officials. However, as Danielle Brulebois explains in the explanatory memorandum of her text: The reference situation is therefore a couple who marry at the start of their working life and who share their retirement until the death of one of the spousesmost often the lice.
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A higher survivor’s pension for women
Civil partnership couples choose a union different from that of married couples, but entailing the same solidarity under the law. However, if one of them dies, the surviving partner can get nothing. However, by virtue of the principle of equality, it is necessary that he can claim to maintain his standard of living, in the same way as a surviving spouse from a marriage, develops Vincent Seitlinger. In France, the average monthly amount of the survivor’s pensionpaid by the basic and supplementary schemes, amounts to 775 euros for women and 345 euros for men.
During the first pension reform in 2018, the High Commissioner for Pension Reform, Jean-Paul Delevoye, raised the possibility of extending the survivor’s pension to couples in a civil partnership before giving up. These new laws were referred to the Social Affairs Committee. We do not yet know the date of the examination in the Chamber, but the Prime Minister, Lisabeth Borne, must receive a report on the subject from the Pension Orientation Council (Cor).