In the Lépine competition for savings to be found to fill the deficits, this is a particularly explosive subject that the Attal government intends to bring out of the boxes. The Agirc-Arrco jackpot, managed scrupulously by the unions and employers, this famous jackpot of the supplementary pension plan for private sector employees and retirees, the amounts of which make Bercy's financiers green with envy. On the clock at the end of 2023, a new surplus of 4.3 billion euros (after 5.6 billion in 2022) and 78.5 billion euros in reserves as of December 31.
When these results were published last Thursday, the administrators admitted to being “frankly uncomfortable” in this sequence where the State is looking for billions everywhere. “We have the impression of arriving with a cake next to a table of hungry ministers,” confides one of them. It must be remembered that the organization scrupulously respects the "golden rule" imposed on the scheme, which requires it to have in its coffers an amount enabling it to cover, at least, six months of payment of supplementary pensions in the event of economic and demographic hazards.
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