what are the mechanisms for calculating your pension?

On what basis is the pension of those who claim their pension rights calculated – today at 62, tomorrow at 64 if the reform of the pension system is adopted?

To understand what the reform could change, you must first understand how the existing system works: what is the legal duration? What is a contribution? How is the pension calculated?

We explain, here, the main general mechanisms for calculating pensions, without being able to detail the very numerous exceptions, special cases and other specificities of a system of incredible complexity (children, survivors’ pensions, invalidity, etc.).

Calculation of the amount of pensions