Question 1722 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Perceval Gaillard alerts the Minister of Labor and Employment to the postponement of the increase in pensions by six months. On October 3, 2024, the press broadcast the information according to which the Government plans to postpone by six months the revaluation of pensions scheduled for January 1, 2025 in order to save 3 billion euros, a postponement confirmed in the finance bill for 2025 tabled before the national representation. For justify this decision, Bercy services ensure that retirees would have a standard of living “today higher than that of active people”. According to an INSEE study published in 2022: pensions in Reunion are the lowest in France after those in Mayotte, 28% less than in France; six out of ten retirees live below the poverty line; 23% of poor households are retired households. In Reunion, we are therefore very far from a “more comfortable standard of living than those in the workforce”. Considering the real situation in Reunion Island, this decision is incomprehensible to the population, organized civil society and elected officials. The increase in pensions must be maintained on January 1, 2025, particularly in overseas territories and Reunion Island in view of socio-economic indicators and the reality of the cost of living. If the Minister does not wish not reconsider this measure on a national scale, he asks it to exclude Reunion Island, which would suffer a double penalty with this decision.

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