2024-10-05 10:29:40
DESCRIBED – To save money, Michel Barnier decided to involve the elderly by postponing the indexation of pensions to inflation. A politically flammable topic, even if economically pensioners have nothing to envy of workers.
Enough to revive the debate on who really lives better in France. To make essential budget savings, the government announced this week that the traditional indexation of pensions to inflation will be postponed next year by six months, from 1 January to 1 July. A freezing of pensions which evidently does not please those interested and which was immediately criticized by the unions. In a joint press release published on Friday, the nine unions and pensioners’ associations (CGT, FO, CFTC, CFE-CGC, FSU, Solidaires, FGR, LSR and UNRPA) «protest against this measure which will once again worsen the purchasing power of pensioners”.
If Prime Minister Michel Barnier defended an effort on Thursday evening in the program “L’Événement” on France 2 “fair and proportionate”well that “difficult”forcing pensioners to contribute remains rather unpopular, due to the image it…
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