small pensions, long careers and impact for women

Currently, a career start before the age of 20 can allow an early departure of two years, at age 60. Entry into working life before the age of 16 can give the right to early retirement of four years, at age 58. To benefit from it, the insured must have validated five quarters at the end of the year during which his sixteenth or twentieth birthday occurred.

The reform project plans to “adapt” this system:
– the few people who started working before the age of 16 will be able to continue to retire at age 58, i.e. six years before the new legal age of 64;
– those who started before the age of 20 will still be able to leave two years earlier than the legal age, which will have the effect of postponing their departure to 62 instead of 60 at present;
– the government also plans to create a new intermediate age limit, which would allow those who started before the age of 18 to leave at 60, ie four years before the new legal age.

Faced with criticism from the right, whose voices are essential to pass the reform, the government has proposed some adjustments. In early February, Prime Minister Elisabeth Borne thus announced want to extend the long career system to people who started working between the ages of 20 and 21. They will be able to retire at 63 instead of 64. The senators validatedThursday March 9, various amendments in this sense, while the Assembly had not had time to decide on the subject.

VSsome LR deputies, like Aurélien Pradié, however, continued to criticize the system, which still forces some employees with long careers to contribute 44 years, i.e. one year longer than the legal duration required for common law. Amendments were tabled in the Senate to allow certain employees with a long career not to contribute more than 43 years from the moment they reached the required early retirement age, but they were rejected.