Question 17704 — pensions: general

Summary

Mr. Lionel Duparay draws the attention of the Minister of Sports, Youth and Community Life to the retirement rights of former high-level athletes registered on the ministerial lists before January 1, 2012. The quarterly validation system financed by the State, created by Law No. 2011-1906 of December 21, 2011 on the financing of social security for 2012, allows, under certain conditions, to compensate for the non-contributory quarters during periods of registration on the ministerial list of high-level athletes. However, this mechanism, which entered into force on January 1, 2012, is not retroactive and therefore does not allow registration periods prior to this date to be taken into account. The law of April 14, 2023 on corrective financing of social security for 2023 nevertheless opened to high-level athletes registered on the lists ministerial authorities a right to buy back uncontributed quarters, within the limit of twelve quarters. In several responses to parliamentary questions, the Government has also indicated that it has initiated consultation with athletes' representatives in 2023 in order to bring forward proposals concerning the conditions for implementing buyout support, particularly for former athletes who cannot benefit from the compensation mechanism financed by the State. In its response published on April 10, 2025 to written question no. 03046, the ministry indicated that this reflection concerned in particular more than 40,000 athletes registered on the ministerial lists between 1984 and 2011. However, for the former athletes concerned, the legal possibility of buying back quarters only partially responds to the difficulty encountered when the cost of this redemption remains their responsibility. This situation concerns a generation of athletes who represented France at the highest level at a time when conditions of remuneration, professionalization and social protection were significantly less developed than today. He therefore asks what concrete follow-ups have been given to the consultation initiated in 2023 concerning support for the redemption of the quarters of high-level athletes. level registered on the ministerial lists before 2012, how many former athletes have actually benefited from the buy-back system since then and whether the Government is now considering the establishment of total or partial coverage by the State of the cost of these buy-outs, particularly for former athletes with low pension rights.

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