Senators plead for legal age at 63

What will happen to the legal retirement age? Currently at 62, some Senators say it would be beneficial to raise the legal age of stopping work to 63 to maintain the balance of the system. René-Paul Savary (LR) and Jean-Marie Vanlerenberghe (UC) stated that the
pension reform Emmanuel Macron, planned for 2019, "would require" adjustments.

"Parametric reforms will always be necessary to adapt our retirement system to the lengthening of the life span and the lowering of the ratio between the active and the retired, said the two parliamentarians in an address to the Social Affairs Committee of the Senate.

Senators have traveled in recent months to Germany, Italy and Sweden, where were placed implementation of "systemic reforms". "The conclusion we draw (…) is that they do not mean a definitive reform," they badured.

A central and "inevitable" question

In each country, "the age of the retirement remains the central parameter of retirement systems, as much to ensure their financial equilibrium as a sufficient standard of living for retirees ". However, the French system is deficient and will remain so at least until 2036, in the best of scenarios envisaged by the Pension Guidance Council (COR).

"The reform of 2019 will inevitably deal with this issue" said the two senators. Before emphasizing that "the average age of retirement in France remains 2-3 years less than those observed in the countries visited."

According to them, the retention of the legal minimum age at 62 " would result in "manufacturing" poorer pensioners "and its" raising to 63 years, "advocated" for several years "by the Social Affairs Committee of the Senate," remains more relevant than ever. "

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