2023-10-24 12:25:13
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5:51 p.m., October 24, 2023
While the examination of the Social Security financing bill for 2024 begins in the Assembly, the executive finally renounces drawing on Agirc-Arrco supplementary pensions to balance the accounts. This backpedaling by the government is quite unexpected.
After having justified its philosophy once more and once more, namely recovering part of the surpluses generated by its reform, the executive ends up giving up. While the examination of the Social Security financing bill for 2024 begins in the Assembly, the government will not table an amendment reducing revenues from the Agirc-Arrco regime, contrary to what was planned.
The Minister of Public Accounts, Thomas Cazenave, confirmed this Tuesday followingnoon in the National Assembly, as announced by Europe 1. The minister must explain that the government intends to reopen social dialogue to address this issue of financing minimum retirement pensions. Concrete and rapid progress will be requested, otherwise restrictive measures will have to be examined once more. But for now, the initial lead is well and truly ruled out.
The doubling of the remainder does not appear in the bill
Enough to raise a question: where will the savings, planned thanks to the withdrawal of funds, be made? supplementary pensions? A question which remains almost unanswered, at the moment. For 2024, the government is targeting 3.5 billion euros in savings on expenses in the health sector, including 1.3 billion in savings on health products. health, and the executive includes, in this line, the fruit of the doubling of the remainder payable on medicines and consultations. However, the measure does not appear in the text of the law. “It has not been stopped,” says Bercy on this subject.
The Ministry of the Economy specifies that if this measure were to be implemented, it would be done by decree. In the meantime, an amendment aimed at reducing contributions on remuneration above 2.5 SMIC seems to be holding the line. It should make it possible to free up 600 million euros.
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