Small pensions. No revaluation October 1 – The Telegram

Small pensions. No revaluation October 1 – The Telegram

The poorest pensioners will, more than ever, have to use the calculator to get by. Yesterday, the CFDT called for a “significant gesture” to be done for them. For its part, the CGT has called them to express Sept. 30 .. Photo François Destoc

Small pensions below 1,200 euros, the Government had spared the gel will not be adjusted at 1 October and, because of the “very low inflation in 2014,” announced yesterday, the Ministry of Health.

“The valuation rules because of the very low inflation in 2014 (0.5% instead of the 1.1% originally envisaged), lead to a stable pensions,” the ministry said. In a nutshell: retirees with the lowest pensions, which were expected to hit about five dollars more per month, will not have a penny more. They find themselves in the same boat and teaches that other retirees. Retirees’ pensions to the minimum age (572,000 beneficiaries in late 2011) will benefit, however, “as the government had promised, a boost in October,” Has it been clarified. How much? Mystery … Flashback. As part of the plan of 50 billion euros of savings to

be achieved by 2017, the government decided to freeze pensions until October 2015, one expected to generate 1.3 billion savings measure. Then, under pressure from members of the majority, he promised to spare the poorest pensioners – those who accumulated the basic pension and supplementary pensions, earning less than 1,200 euros per month – by applying the normal rules of revaluation.

A gel eighteen months

But guess. Inflation is far, far from the expected rate. The result actually upgrading, pensions for the poorest pensioners will experience, at most, a stabilization. Blame the calculation rules that take into account both of the adjustment applied in 2013 and inflation. “Five dollars more per month for the most disadvantaged, it was not anything! “Railed Annie Little, national secretary of the National Union of Pensioners and the elderly (UNRPA). 15 million retirees, two million live below the poverty threshold (987 euros per month in 2012). The stabilization of the smaller pensions easier, by the way, the task of government. The partial revaluation represented, indeed, a real headache for the administration … In effect, this amounts to a freeze of 18 months since the date of annual pension increases had already been shifted this year to April to October on the occasion of the pension reform. The lean period continues …