2024-01-26 07:05:02
They deserted the processions during the pension reform. And yet, farmers are not the best off. Worse, they remain the poor parents. Among the main schemes, that of self-employed agricultural workers pays the lowest pensions: while the average direct pension of the French (excluding reversion in the event of the death of the spouse) amounted to 1,510 euros at the end of 2020, it was only 800 euros for those who spent the majority of their career as a farmer.
The demand for an improvement in their retirement system does not appear at the top of the long list carried by the FNSEA (majority union). However, on the dams, the subject rustles in conversations. Since 2010, a promise has been made to farmers, which has still not been kept. That of relaxing one of the calculation rules applied to the basic pension of non-agricultural employees, where all years of activity count.
A particularly hard calculation system
A particularly harsh system compared to private sector employees, for whom only the best 25 years are taken into account when calculating the amount of the pension, which makes it possible to neutralize the bad years.
The extension of this measure was, however, the subject of debate during the 2010 pension reform. Ultimately, it was forgotten following a report and despite the reiterated commitment to the profession . Left fallow, its implementation has continued to be postponed from pension reform to pension reform. Until the Republicans group in the National Assembly decided to present a bill (end of 2022), finally voted on February 13, 2023. Except that we will still have to wait until January 1, 2026 before its implementation.
And in the meantime, the government has decided to entrust yet another technical commission with a report on the modalities, which was to be delivered within three months following the vote on the law… “We are a year later, there is nothing », lamented the boss of the FNSEA, Arnaud Rousseau, at the start of the week: “I hear politicians saying: we are interested in your questions, we talk about them often, the truth is that as we speak, on pensions, we are not moving forward,” he tackled last Monday on France Inter. The report must be submitted “by the end of January,” said the office of the Minister of Agriculture, Marc Fesneau. In other words, there is less than a week left!
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