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Social protection: substantive issues missing from the debate

2022-03-29T04:30:16.543Z


Retirement, health or even dependency are subjects treated on the margins by presidential candidates, according to the Institute for Social Protection.


The Institute of Social Welfare (IPS) has scrutinized the programs of presidential candidates on issues of retirement, health, dependency, disability, etc.

And his judgment is final: "

The presidential campaign evades some of the real problems

," says Bruno Chrétien, its president.

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On the explosive subject of pensions, the candidates all focused on the retirement age: either to raise it to 64 or 65 (Pécresse, Macron, Zemmour), or to lower it to 60 (Mélenchon, Roussel, partly Le Pen), or to maintain the status quo at 62 (Hidalgo, Jadot).

While life expectancy has increased sharply, "

it is clear that 40 years after the introduction of retirement at age 60, the retirement age still agitates the political debate even though it is not a subject abroad

", observes the president of the IPS.

Especially since there are many other questions to ask: will the 25 best years still serve as the basis for calculating pensions…

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Source: lefigaro

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