PENSION INCREASE. Millions of seniors will benefit from the increase in basic pensions from January 2023. Find out if you are one of the beneficiaries.
[Mis à jour le 15 décembre 2022 à 08h11] The revaluation of pensions from the basic scheme is coming soon! In an attempt to index pensions to inflation, the government has decided to increase basic pensions by 0.8% on January 1, 2023. The third increase in a year. No less than 14 million seniors are concerned. Enough to benefit from a bonus of 12 euros each month, for a pension of 1,500 euros, 16 euros for a pension of 2,000 euros. To benefit from it, you must be affiliated with one of the following funds: CNAV, CNRACL, CNAVPL, SRE, pension of own right, pension of reversion, ASPA or ASI. Remember that basic pensions have already increased twice in 2022, +1% in January and +4% in July.
After successive increases of 1% in January 2022, then 4% last July (+60 euros per month for a pension of 1,200 euros), retirement pensions under the basic scheme will experience a further increase in January 2023.
The increase will be around 0,8%, as included in the Social Security financing bill. Complementary items increased by 5,12% on November 1. The government’s objective being to index the rise in pensions to the rise in inflation, measured at 6,2% in October over one year, and which should exceed 5,3% on average over the whole of 2022. With the successive increases, the increase in pensions could then offset inflation. Here is the full schedule:
- September 9, 2022 : 4% increase for pensions from the basic scheme
- September 28, 2022 : 4% increase for retirees from the State civil service
- September 29, 2022 : 4% increase for retirees from the hospital public service
- 1st November 2022 : increase of 5.12% for complementary Agirc-Arrco
- January 1, 2023 : increase of 0.8% for pensions from the basic scheme
Good to know. Thursday, December 1, 2022, the National Assembly voted a bill in favor of the farmers retirement non-employees. Adopted at first reading, the text in question initiated by the deputy The Republicans Julien Dive, plans to calculate their retirement on the only twenty five best years, and not over the entire career as is the case today. A new method of calculation which should come into force on the horizon 2026.
Starting the January 1, 2023them basic pension will already see their third increase in a year. This time, the increase should reach 0,8%. With the latter, the government intends to index pensions to inflation (more than 5% on average over the year 2022). As a reminder, this year, pensions have already increased by 1% in January, and by 4% in July. This new measure in favor of purchasing power concerns 14 million seniors. The retirees concerned are those affiliated with:
- CNAV (national pension fund)
- CNRACL (national fund of local authority agents)
- SRE (state pension service)
- CNAVPL (national old-age insurance fund for the liberal professions).
This increase in pensions concerns all the basic schemes! In other words, the retirement of proper rightthe pensions of reversionthe beneficiaries of theBLADE as well as theBUT.
The rules for increasing supplementary pensions (Agirc-Arrco, for example) differ from those for basic pensions. These supplementary pensions are calculated from the number of points acquired during the career, to which a value of the point is multiplied. Then, the social partners decide on a possible revaluation of the value of this point.
In an attempt to compensate for the galloping inflation observed in recent months, supplementary retirement pensions have increased by 5,12% from the 1st November 2022. This increase represents, for an additional €700/month, a gain of 35 euros. The decision was taken during the Board of Directors of Agirc-Arrco, on October 6 in the presence of employers’ organizations and trade unions. The service value of the Agirc-Arrco point was set at 1,3498 euros, against 1.2841 euros previously. The cost of this system is estimated at 4.5 billion euros over one year. This increase was decided on the basis of a change in the average salary of +4.82%, to which is added a catch-up of +0.1% in respect of inflation observed in 2021, the social partners have decided to grant the Board of Directors additional leeway of +0.2%, compatible with the plan’s financial trajectory.
The overall retirement pension for civil servants consists mainly of the basic pension. A supplementary scheme, the “additional public service pension (RAFP)” also exists, but is not affected by the revaluation of retirement pensions. The 4% increase in basic pensions depends on the public service to which you belong.
For the former civil servantswhich come under the SRE, the increase occurred end of October (you should have received for example 20 euros for July + 20 euros for August + 20 euros for September). For the hospital civil servants and local authorities, under the CNRACL, the retroactive payment of July 1 and August was made end of Septemberat the same time as the pension increased by 4% corresponding to the month of September.