Consensus finally prevailed on this article.
The National Assembly voted this Wednesday unanimously less than two votes the revaluation of social benefits and retirement pensions by 4%, during the examination in first reading of the bill on purchasing power.
In particular, this concerns, in addition to pensions, family allowances and social minima, such as the RSA, the Disabled Adult Allowance (AAH) and student grants based on social criteria.
This revaluation will take effect from July 1, 2022, retroactively, without waiting for the annual automatic revaluation date.
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The majority rapporteur, Charlotte Parmentier-Lecocq defended an article which will "restore purchasing power to the French from this summer" and allows "to anticipate".
For its part, the left alliance Nupes denounced, through the voice of Adrien Quatennens (LFI) and Arthur Delaporte (PS), a revaluation "below inflation".
“Crumbs”, estimates the RN
“Jupiter (…) swings from Olympus crumbs to mere mortals”, quipped the elected RN Laure Lavalette, denouncing a revaluation “which in no way corresponds to the reality of inflation in our country”.
The increase in prices reached 5.8% in June but could climb to 6.8% over one year in September, according to INSEE.
Retirement and disability pensions under the basic schemes had already been automatically increased by 1.1% in January and some of these social benefits had already increased by 1.8% in April.
Previously, the deputies voted for an article to encourage the branches to sign agreements on their minimum wage, in order to avoid too crushed grids at the first levels.
The MoDem Nicolas Turquois praised an “additional tool” with the “branch approach”.
LFI blasted the measure.
It is "the article Pontius Pilate, we wash our hands of it", according to François Ruffin, a "classic to justify inaction" on wage increases.
The RN voted for it even if it is “terribly minimalist”, “don't count on us to stop there on salaries.
The question of wages is your big taboo, ”said Jean-Philippe Tanguy.
