Paris, oct 7, 2016 – supplementary pensions still frozen in 2016 – The Express

The social partners, the managers of these two regimes, gathered in the board of directors on Thursday and Friday, have “arrested the parameters used in the calculation of pensions and contributions,” says a press release.

“given the weakness of inflation“, supplementary pensions, including the date of revaluation has been shifted from 1 April to 1 November, “will be maintained at their level of the past year“,-he explained.

At the end of tough negotiations to replenish the coffers of the plans, the employers and the trade unions had decided last year to shift the date of revaluation of pensions and renew their slightest increase.

According to the agreement of October 2015, the pensions should be uprated to a point below inflation for three years, a provision that the pension may not decrease if inflation is zero.

This measure has already been applied in 2013, 2014 and 2015, under an agreement of 2013.

“the assumption of The inflation forecast published by the Insee, being very close to zero for the year 2016, the value of the points Agirc and Arrco (which determine the amount of the pension, editor’s note) remains unchanged“. Therefore, pensions will not increase.

Another consequence of the last agreement, the purchase price of pension points is going to increase in 2017, which will decrease the performance of the plans for the future retiree.

The agreement of 2015, signed by the employers (Medef, CGPME, UPA) and three trade unions (CFDT, CFE-CGC, CFTC), must achieve 6.1 billion euros in savings by 2020 to replenish the funds of the Agirc-Arrco, the heavily loss-making.

Among its main measures include the merger of the two plans and the implementation, from January 2019, a system of bonus-malus on pensions to encourage employees to work longer.

In 2014, the Arrco had approximately 18 million subscribers to 12 million pensioners. The Agirc had it 4 million subscribers to almost 3 million pensioners.

The basic retirement pensions have not been uprated in October due to the low inflation. They have stagnated since 2013.