The recovery of social security accounts announced by the government is only a sham, because it will not last, criticizes the Court of Auditors in a report published on Tuesday.
If the Social Security "
hole
" should be reduced in 2023 to 6.8 billion euros (compared to 17.8 billion in 2022) as announced by the government, it will widen again from 2024 and 2025 to reach nearly 12 billion in 2026. A deterioration which is explained by the pension deficit (14 billion) and that of health (3 billion).
This worsening of the deficit is all the more “
worrying
” warns the Court that it is calculated on “
optimistic forecasts
” of economic growth for 2024,2025 and 2026 (1.6% to 1.7%).
However, this maintenance of the social security deficit at a high level creates the risk of a continuous growth in social debt – around 160 billion euros at the end of 2022 – to the detriment of future generations.
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