At least 188,000 public employees benefited from the Individual Purchasing Power Guarantee (Gipa) for civil servants in 2023, the non-payment of which was confirmed in 2024, according to a report from the General Directorate of Administration and Function public (DGAFP) published Friday.
This annual bonus, to which civil servants and contract workers are eligible regardless of their category (A, B or C), was introduced in 2008 in order to guarantee public employees maintaining their level of remuneration when their index salary has changed. slower than inflation over a four-year period.
Among other government measures to make savings of 1.2 billion euros in the public sector, the Minister of the Civil Service, Guillaume Kasbarian, announced the non-payment of this bonus in 2024, arguing difficult budgetary context.
According to the DGAFP report on the state of the civil service, 188,000 “civilian agents of ministries and higher education establishments” benefited from the payment of this bonus: a “level never reached since the establishment of the measure in 2008,” note the authors.
It amounted to an average annual amount of 663 euros in 2023, we can read.
For comparison, according to a previous report from the DGAFP, this bonus “enabled around 61,000 agents from the three sides of the public service (state, hospital and territorial, editor's note) to receive an average compensation estimated at around 400 euros”, in 2022.
This is three times fewer beneficiaries than the number mentioned in the report published Friday, while the DGAFP was only interested in a smaller group of public agents.
“These are only beneficiaries +civilian agents of ministries and higher education establishments+, which represents 1.7 million public agents out of the 2.5 million agents” of the state civil service, a source from the ministerial statistical service of the civil service told AFP.
“In fact, there were more beneficiaries (of Gipa, editor's note) throughout the public service”, but “in the information systems that we use in our statistical work, we do not have this information outside this restricted field,” she detailed.
