Question 19789 — pensions: independent and special schemes

Summary

Mr. Alexis Corbière draws the attention of the Minister of Culture to the uncertainties weighing on the retirement plan for artist-authors. On April 11, 2019, a group of professional organizations in the cultural sector launched a vast campaign whose name, “Cultural Extinction”, alone sums up the concerns harbored by this collective about the end of the French cultural exception. The Government is indeed planning to replace of the forty-two current pension schemes by a single system in which each euro contributed would give rise to identical rights, without distinction of status of the contributor. However, if artist-authors have been covered by the social security system since the law of December 31, 1975, they place themselves in a particular situation. Indeed, the artist-authors not having an employer, the legislator then chose to compensate in this same law the absence of employer share by the creation of a “broadcaster” contribution. In view of this contribution, if each euro contributed gives identical rights, the consequences for the artist-authors will be devastating. If this reform were to be applied, the income of artist-authors would in fact be reduced by an additional contribution of 13% compared to today while ultimately reducing their pensions. These difficulties will be added to those already encountered to date. Artist-authors are in fact hit hard by precariousness; according to official figures from the Ministry of Culture, half of them have an income below the minimum wage. Such a reform would therefore call into question art and culture, vectors of human emancipation and the influence of the country. He asks him to reveal his intentions to guarantee artist-authors a fair system of contributions and retirement. He also asks that the collectives' proposal to create a new, more protective status for this profession be seriously studied.

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