the decree raising the legal retirement age to 64 was published in the “Official Journal”

2023-06-04 04:43:23

They are the first of thirty-one application texts which must be published before 1^is September so that the controversial pension reform can be implemented on time. Two implementing decrees were thus published on Sunday July 4, au Official newspaperincluding the one gradually pushing back the legal age of departure, the most controversial measure in the text.

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These decrees set out the terms of application of Articles 10, 11 and 17 of the amended Social Security financing law for 2023 “relating, on the one hand, to the gradual increase in the age of opening of pension rights from 62 to 64 years and to the acceleration of the rate of increase in the amount of insurance required for the full rate, and, on the other hand, to early departures, in particular with regard to long careers and in respect of disability”explains the government in a press release.

In particular, the provisions relating to the “active categories” public service (firefighters, police, air traffic controllers, etc.), who can always leave before the age of 64 but whose legal age of departure will also be raised, and early departures for people who started working early and contributed the required 43 years.

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For long careers, the system “now provides for four age limits for entry into the system (16 years, 18 years, 20 years and 21 years), by allowing early retirement according to four limits for the opening of pension rights (respectively 58 years, 60 years, 62 years and 63 years)”the statement said.

“From July, there will be pensions which will be calculated according to the new rules”said on May 31, the director general of the National Old Age Insurance Fund (Cnav), Renaud Villard.

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The publication of these decrees also comes two days before the fourteenth day of action against the pension reform on Tuesday, at the call of the inter-union, for whom the decline in the legal age to 64 is the main red line. .

The National Assembly must also examine on June 8 a bill repealing the reform, on the initiative of the independent group Freedom, independent, overseas and territories (LIOT). The text was emptied of its substance in committee, but will give rise to new passes of arms during its examination in session.

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