Question 35005 — overseas

Summary

Mr. Jean-Philippe Nilor alerts the Minister of Solidarity and Health to the difficulties of accessing retirement in the overseas territories. In overseas territories, a growing number of retirees are faced with extreme precariousness: loss of purchasing power, very low pension level. Around 6,000 of them fell into poverty, as far as Martinique is concerned. Added to this is the aging of the population and endemic unemployment which, combined with the consequences of the pandemic, foreshadows an explosion of situations of social exclusion. Indeed, entire generations who have only had an uneven professional career will reach retirement age without being able to justify the annuities necessary to claim a full pension. This reality complicates the relationship with retirement for a large part of citizens, making it the current system almost inoperable. The question of access to retirement is a real time bomb that must be defused urgently. It requires attentive and differentiated treatment. Can we subject residents of a territory so hard hit by structural unemployment varying between 18% and 25% of the population to the same retirement system and which will reach records because of the pandemic? In this context, continue the pension reform according to recurring software which ignores this high level of risk of social explosion is dangerous. Prioritizing the sole objective of reducing deficits by placing the same efforts on the populations of these territories as those required of those in more favored territories inevitably perpetuates discrimination and accentuates the risk of a major territorial explosion. Such a policy marks a gap between two models of society based on two diametrically opposed conceptions of humanity and politics. It signals the obvious failure of the development model which has prevailed until now in the so-called “overseas” territories and which has continued to generate profound inequalities there. He asks him how he intends to guarantee equality in retirement when the established rules only apply to certain people and favor the exclusion of those who wish to live with dignity after a life of work not formally recognized.

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