In a few days you will vote on the government proposal to under-index pensions to inflation on January 1, 2025 for all retirees and to postpone catching up with this indexation on prices from 2024 to July 1 of next year. only for pensions less than or equal to the minimum wage.
Elected officials know well that the vast majority are neither privileged nor selfish! Retirement pensions are not a “budgetary adjustment variable”. The situation of retirees and elderly people is particularly worrying in Reunion. The poverty rate remains very high in our department, and 23% of poor households are retired households. 17% of people over 65 benefit from ASV or ASPA. This observation is explained by an increase in inflation which particularly affects our territory.
Today retirees are angry.
Since January 2017 their pensions have lagged behind price changes by 5.3% and their purchasing power has been reduced by the equivalent of 3.1 months of pension. For those who suffered the 25% increase in the CSG in 2018, the loss amounts to 7.8% and the equivalent of 4.5 months of pension.
New retirees leave on average with 68% of their last salary due to the various reforms which over the past 20 years have extended the retirement age and increased the duration of contributions, making access to the full rate more difficult for many of them. them.
Furthermore, retirees are very severely affected by the deterioration experienced by our health system. Fee overruns, the increase in deductibles and medical packages, the considerable increase in supplementary health insurance, etc. are aggravating the decline in their purchasing power.
Indexing to inflation on January 1, far from being a revaluation, consists of updating a posteriori the pensions which have suffered inflation during the past year, as stipulated in articles L.161-23-1 and L.161-25 of the Social Security Code.
We demand that the losses suffered be made up, i.e. an increase of 10%. No pension must be lower than the minimum wage and ultimately retirement pensions must be indexed to changes in the average salary.
We demand the implementation of a compensation mechanism which takes into account the reality of the cost of living in Reunion, and the extension of this compensatory system to all retirees in our department.
The 18 million retirees have the right to eat properly, take care of themselves and live with dignity.
You will have to decide in a few days on the proposal of non-indexation on January 1, 2025! We are counting on you to ensure that the standard of living of retirees does not deteriorate further in our department.
CGT retirees
FO UCR
CFTC Retirees
CFR CGC UNIRetired
FSU
Solidarity Retirees retired
FGR-FP
LSR
Together and united
