Several solutions planned
For 2025, the government plans various savings measures to redress the situation, reaching 15 billion euros, according to the information that the executive has left filtered. Among the measures in the pipeline, there is notably the postponement of the revaluation of pensions by six months, which would save 4 billion euros. The executive also plans to revise downward the exemptions from social security contributions enjoyed by companies, or to transfer a fraction of reimbursements for medical consultations to complementary health insurance. The government is also considering reducing the contribution of Health Insurance to the financing of sick leave. Companies would be called upon to take over directly, unless employees lose the benefit of the part of the compensation concerned, thus financing the measure themselves.
Heard last week before the Senate, the director of Social Security, Pierre Pribile, explained the 2024 slippage in particular by an “inflationary shock”, which “very heavily impacted the social accounts, […] due in particular to a gap between the dynamic of indexation” of a large number of social benefits paid and “the spontaneous dynamic of revenues, rather dictated by the evolution of wages”. Faced with very high inflation, “it is normal that a certain number of salary increases in the public sector have been decided”, particularly in the hospital sector, of which “we could not anticipate the scale” and the real effect on the Health Insurance expenses, he estimated.
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