– 13th AVS pension: taking action!
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Published today at 9:02 a.m.
A rally for the 13th AVS pension took place in February in the pedestrian zone of rue du Mont-Blanc.
PIERRE ALBOUY
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Petit-Lancy, May 15
The decision was taken by the people to pay AVS beneficiaries a 13th annual pension. It is a popular decision of the sovereign which must be applied without waiting for procrastination from the Federal Chambers or the parties.
As the initiative did not set the start of this payment, this decision can be implemented quickly, as was the wish, before the vote, in order above all to help rights holders encountering financial difficulties. For this, we must not wait for back and forth in parliamentary discussions, but take decisions applying the popular decision, without this implying insurmountable work for the payment of this 13th annuity.
We can read in the press a large number of solutions resolving the financing of this 13th pension, each going in a different way. If we continue like this, we will let years pass before the first payment is made. And as this was a decision of the sovereign, there is no rearguard battle to be waged, especially between the parties.
We understand that employers would accept an increase in employer and personal contributions of 0.4% each, and that, according to the calculation of the “initiators”, with an increase of 0.2% in VAT, the financing of this 13th pension would be assured.
And some time after this historic vote, we learned that the AVS regime had recorded a positive result of 2.9 billion in 2023, while having increased its reserves for the payment of pensions.
This being said, it would now be appropriate to take action and take into consideration the popular decision of the sovereign by paying the 13th pension already at the end of 2025, at the beginning of November or December, by increasing contributions from January 1, 2025, and to draw from reserves from 2025 to compensate for any shortfall resulting from the non-increase in VAT.
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Michael Morend
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