Labor Minister Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet on Tuesday raised the possibility of a contribution from certain retirees to the financing of social protection, believing that this effort should not fall solely on businesses and workers.
The contribution to the financing of social protection “can actually relate to people who work”, she said on TF1 where she was questioned about the Senate's proposal to make all workers work 7 hours more per year without pay. to bail out Social Security. “But it can also apply to retired people who can afford it.”
“40% of retirees”
“I think that this should not concern all retirees (…), it could be 40% of retirees,” she added. “There are different taxes and contributions that could be considered for retirees who can afford it (…) depending on the level of pension,” Panosyan-Bouvet said. “It’s up for discussion, it could be 2,000 euros, it could be 2,500.”
For the Minister of Labor and Employment, “the financing of social protection today falls too much on businesses and workers. » “There comes a certain point when this burden must be better distributed across the entire population, especially for a risk which is that of dependence which mainly concerns the elderly, those who will return to a situation of dependency and loss of autonomy,” she stressed.
-“500 or 800 million euros more”
Concerning the option of 7 hours of additional work per year without pay, “we have to look with the social partners because it can be 10 minutes per week (…) there are different applications depending on the branches”, indicated Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, dismissing the idea of removing “a periodic day”.
This “form of contribution to the national financing effort for dependency and the autonomy branch” should generate “two billion euros”, she indicated. “If we actually add a contribution from retirees who can afford it, we would be looking at perhaps 500, 800 million euros more depending on the threshold that is decided.”
