The French rushed to the portal to estimate their new legal age of departure in the light of the reform presented by the executive. It was difficult to get there on Wednesday.
Expected for weeks, the outlines of the government’s pension reform project were unveiled last night by Élisabeth Borne. In the wake of these announcements, many French people tried to connect to the Info-Retraite simulator portal to estimate their starting conditions in the light of the announced changes. In vain. Just minutes after the Prime Minister’s speech, the site went down.
On Wednesday, trying to connect to the site to perform a simulation resulted in an error message: “Due to a large number of users connected to the retirement account, you cannot access it at this time. Please accept our apologies and try again later“, it was indicated. “Momentarily unavailablethe portal was working at times, as we have seen. In case of failure, it is therefore necessary to be patient and try your luck again a little later.
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If this bug is due to the exceptional influx of visitors to the site, some Internet users rather see it as a sign of a lack of preparation on the part of the government. Reacting on Twitter, many French people point to the failure of the state administration which, according to them, took too long to update the simulator with the new parameters induced by the reform.
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If they manage to log in, the working people will be able to find out what the government project has in store for them. Access to the retirement account is via France Connect, via an impots.gouv.fr, ameli.fr, msa.fr or La Poste account. Alternatively, you can also use the simulator of the Figaroaccessible by clicking on this link, to calculate the age at which you can retire.
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