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“It’s a sleight of hand,” criticized the right-wing leader on RTL. “I am going to ask Michel Barnier one thing, which is to come back to the measure which was announced by Laurent Wauquiez” because it “creates 9 million losers among retirees”, he explained.
A “gift for Bercy”, not for retirees
“Either Michel Barnier did not look exactly, (…) or they realized that it was not a gift for retirees, that it was a gift for Bercy,” said Xavier Bertrand, denouncing “an announcement effect”. Because, he detailed, those who will only benefit from a revaluation of half of inflation, “they will miss about 1%” this year but also “in 2026 and in 2027, until at the end of their days.”
In a sequence deemed “incongruous” by the other members of the government coalition, the president of the LR deputies announced Monday to the TF1 news that the government would defend a general revaluation of pensions by half of inflation on 1is January then a second on July 1 for small pensions only. Thus 9 million retirees would not be able to benefit from this second increase, according to Xavier Bertrand.
Higher health insurance costs
Initially, Michel Barnier's government planned to revalue all pensions at the level of inflation (2%), not at 1is January as is customary, but on 1is July to save around 4 billion euros.
“Retirees receive their pension because they contributed, they had a career that was not 35 hours long, it was not the same time, it was not the same working conditions,” underlined Xavier Bertrand, also recalling that mutual insurance costs more for retirees who have “more health care than others”.
