The organization estimates that the share is “only” 85% among the 75-84 year olds and 84% among the over 85s. 18891862/Magalice – stock.adobe.com
DECRYPTION – The number of beneficiaries of the basic scheme continues to increase and now exceeds 15 million.
The French continue to work older and older, notes the National Old Age Insurance Fund (Cnav), which pays the basic pensions of private sector employees and the self-employed. Last year, the average retirement age thus rose to 63.1 years, compared to 62.9 years in 2021 and 62.8 years in 2020.
This decline has lasted for ten years and owes nothing to chance: “This is mainly due to the impact of previous pension reforms,” underlines Pascale Breuil, director of statistics within the CNAV. That of 2010 simultaneously increased the legal age of departure from 60 to 62 years and that of departure without discount from 65 to 67 years. To a lesser extent, Marisol Touraine’s reform of 2014, which provides for an extension of the contribution period, also plays into this trend.
Baby boom generation
However, the movement does not stop the inflation of the number of beneficiaries of the general scheme, the amount of which exceeds for the first time 15 million individuals, against 14.8 million one year…
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