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Progressivity for those who started working after 20 years
Today, there are several age barriers to retiring earlier with the so-called long career system. You can leave from the age of 58 if you started working before the age of 16, at 60 for a start in working life before the age of 18 and finally at 62 for a start in your career before the age of 20. And for all, you must have contributed for 43 years. The cost of the measure, which will lead to a greater number of early retirements for long careers, was estimated by the party at 1.6 billion euros per year. Expense that he wants to compensate by eliminating state medical aid (AME) which allows access to care for people in an irregular situation.
For those who started their career after 20 years, you will have to be a little more patient. “Progressiveness will be implemented as we defended in 2022 during Marine Le Pen's presidential campaign with a legal age of 62 and a number of annuities of up to 42 years of contributions,” simply clarified Jordan Bardella. As a reminder, the 2023 pension reform gradually increases the legal retirement age to 64 years from the generation born in 1968 and increases the contribution period necessary to have the full rate to 43 years, for those born in from 1965.
The National Rally therefore intends to return to the old rules, before Emmanuel Macron's reform, without specifying exactly when this return will be effective. On this issue, Marine Le Pen’s party is playing it safe. “The progressive timetable for its implementation (return to retirement at age 62, Editor’s note) will be determined after consultation with the budget audit,” announced Jordan Bardella. He then affirmed that the pension reform “will therefore in principle be repealed”. A sentence which still leaves doubt about the actual reality of a return to retirement at 62.
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