The Prime Minister promised retirees that he “wishes and is committed” to raising pensions to the level of inflation. Or the application of the Social Security code, already in force.
Guest of 8 p.m. on France 2, Saturday June 15, the Prime Minister, Gabriel Attal, addressed retirees, attacking the opposition program which, according to him, “would necessarily be accompanied by a reduction in pensions”. And to add, conversely, a commitment in favor of pensions: “obviously, we want and we are committed to increasing pensions by the amount of inflation”.
The commitment of the current Prime Minister has sparked some mocking remarks on social networks, with commentators pointing out the fact that the measure is already provided for by law. And that the promise would therefore have nothing new.
Indeed, article L161-25 of the Social Security Code provides that “the annual revaluation of benefit amounts”including pensions, “is carried out on the basis of a coefficient equal to the evolution of the annual average of consumer prices, excluding tobacco, calculated on the last twelve monthly indices of these prices published by the National Institute of Statistics and Studies economic benefits the penultimate month preceding the date of revaluation of the services concerned”. CheckNews recently returned to this mechanism in September, on the occasion of the last revaluation of pensions.
However, and as we noted in our last article, the executive has sometimes been able to deviate from the Social Security code and under-index the revaluation of pensions in relation to inflation. In 2020, he even differentiated the increase according to the amount of pensions (1% below 2,000 euros of pensions for all schemes and 0.3% for pensions above 2,000 euros).
