For the minister, it is not only those who are active who must contribute, retirees must also put their hands in their pockets.
You have to find money to make ends meet. Everyone agrees on that. It is on the means implemented to achieve this that visions diverge. This weekend Catherine Vautrin, the Minister of Labor, Health and Solidarity, relaunched the idea of an extra day worked but not paid, making it possible to free up two billion.
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The Minister responsible for Labor and Employment Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet made another proposal. She mentioned a new avenue this Tuesday morning, believing that “the assets should not be the only ones to be put to use”.
“Let us stop seeing retirees as a homogeneous group”: @AstridPanosyan hopes that a “contribution to the national funding effort for dependency and the autonomy branch” will be studied in the parliamentary debate so that “the effort does not only focus on the active”. pic.twitter.com/zpRF2rBC3F
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Guest of the TF1 morning show, she explained to Bruce Toussaint that she was proposing a contribution from retirees to this national effort to finance dependency and the autonomy branch for seniors. But “not all retirees”… “We have to stop seeing retirees as a homogeneous group, there are as many retirees as there are employees,” she says.
She estimates approximately “40% of retirees” those who “can afford it”. They could participate from “2,000 or 2,500 euros pension”of the “topics to be discussed with parliamentarians” she assures. She insisted that there had to be a “intergenerational solidarity between young workers and our elders but also between elders, those who can afford it and those who cannot”. Referring to the parliamentary debate the amount to be levied.
