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Pension reform: pay attention to the final bill

2020-02-04T17:03:10.998Z


DECRYPTION - With modifications and creation of rights, it risks increasing beyond the 325 billion euros of annual retirement expenditure.


The more time passes, the more the pension reform is unlike any of the previous ones. And, in any case, not that of 2010 where each member knew, from the start of the parliamentary debate, what to expect. Éric Woerth, the Minister of Labor, had indeed been clear when the bill was introduced. Raising the starting age by two years over an eight-year period - shortened by one year at the end of 2011, due to the crisis - was expected to meet half of the 40 billion euros in funding needs for all plans by 2020. Objective data over which no elected official had any influence.

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It is different today. If the government posted in mid-December the amount of the deficit (12 billion per year) to be filled in 2027, MEPs do not know how the counters will be brought to zero, nor how the balance will then be guaranteed. The fault of the reference to the “pension financing conference” , at the request of the CFDT, which is three months old

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Source: lefigaro

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