There are more than one in ten of them. This is the proportion of new retirees who, in 2023, continue to work, according to the “employment, unemployment, income from work” file from INSEE, published last July. They then join the employment-retirement accumulation system which allows them to resume an activity even if they have liquidated their pension rights. And new, since the 2023 pension reform, with this accumulation, they can create new pension rights and thus increase the future pension they will receive, once they have definitively ceased all activity.
In general, there are few breaks between the liquidation of retirement and the resumption of a new professional activity. “People who liquidated their pension rights at the age of 63 or more often continue to work in the six months that follow,” points out the document from the National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies. For example, a third of self-employed people continue to work during the six months that follow the start of payment of their pension.
But what are the reasons that can motivate these new retirees to return to work so quickly? For four out of ten people, working after retirement is a financial necessity. “38% do it out of the need to earn additional income, and 36% continue because they get satisfaction from their work, whether because they enjoy working (21%) or for the contact (…)
(…) Click here to see more
Michel Barnier, the defender of retirement… at 65 years old
Repealing pension reform: would employees who leave after 62 really lose out?
Retirement: from what age can you receive a survivor’s pension?
Survivor’s pension: be careful not to forget this procedure at Agirc-Arrco
Pension reform: the conditions for getting your unnecessary quarter buybacks reimbursed
