Thousands of low-income retirees will still not have the increase in their pensions supposed to occur on October 9. Discover their profile.
The law of April 14, 2023 on corrective financing of Social Security introduced an exceptional increase for certain policyholders receiving a small pension. However, not everyone has been able to benefit from it yet…
The payment of this increase was planned in two stages: a first wave in the fall of 2023, affecting around 600,000 retirees, and a second wave in October 2024 (corresponding to retirement in September of the same year), affecting nearly 800,000 additional people, according to a press release from the National Old Age Insurance Fund (Cnav).
The measure concerns policyholders of the general scheme who have retired since September 1, 2023 and meet the following conditions: receive a full pension, have at least 120 quarters of contributions, and not exceed certain income ceilings. Concretely, the basic pension must not exceed 847.57 euros per month (increase included) and the addition of this pension with all supplementary pensions received must not exceed 1,352.23 euros per month.
However, it appears that some eligible retirees will still not have received the increase to which they are entitled during the 2nd payment wave scheduled for October 9. These “forgotten” retirees find themselves in a delicate situation. Fulfilling all the eligibility conditions, they legitimately expect to benefit from this increase in their pension. Their disappointment is all the greater as this increase can represent up to 100 euros per month, a significant amount for people receiving small pensions.
The complexity of the eligibility criteria, combined with the diversity of the professional paths of self-employed workers, could partly explain this delay. According to the Cnav, the profile at risk of having escaped the two waves of pension increases are the self-employed, craftsmen and traders who have never been employed. This would represent 10,000 to 40,000 people that the organization is working to identify in order to correct this situation.
Therefore, people who think they meet the eligibility conditions can now check this by using the Retirement Insurance simulator at La-reforme-des-retraites-et-moi.fr. For the moment, Cnav has not specified the date on which eligible retirees will have all received the increase due to them. It simply specifies that the increases will be paid and that no action will be necessary. However, if as of October 9, 2024, people who think they are affected have still not received anything, nothing prevents them from contacting Pension Insurance to take stock of their situation so as not to remain in uncertainty.
