“Wouldn’t Gabriel Attal be making fun of us by making a proposal that already exists in the law? », writes JCH to us, in readers’ letters.
The President had already promised it at a press conference on June 12 but only for 2025. Guest on 8 p.m. on France 2, Saturday June 15, Prime Minister Gabriel Attal confirmed a commitment to pensions: “obviously, we want and we are committed to increasing pensions by the amount of inflation”
The two men attracted a series of jokes on social networks highlighting the fact that the measure is already in the law. 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”.
In France, the law therefore effectively provides for the indexation of pensions to inflation. However, the government can choose to deviate from it or under-index it, a regular practice at the time of the Social Security budget. In 2020, recall our colleagues from Checknews, it had 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) .
If the promise to properly index pensions to inflation is kept, this could therefore be a real development for retirees.
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