Pension reform : promised by Macron, the simulator official is not for tomorrow

Emmanuel Macron has promised that a simulator allowing every French person to measure the impact of the reform would be online by mid-December. It will take until the end of 2020.

The master of the clocks spoke too soon. Tuesday, on the eve of the announcements of Édouard Philippe, Emmanuel Macron has promised a simulator allowing every French person to calculate his pension in the future system-to-points. And set a deadline : it should be put online on the 18 December. One way to reassure the French who are afraid of losing, and to respond to the requests of the members of the majority get frustrated of not being able to contradict the figures that circulate on the Internet.

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As to inform the workers concerned have recourse to the simulators available for free online, developed by the unions, banks and or insurance. Tools incomplete and not devoid of ulterior motives -, the insurance offering, for example, plans for additional savings. Result : "when sometimes I see some of the simulations that are made by newspapers or people who make websites, this is the pipe full", had estimated in October, the president of the Republic. But without an official source alternative, these simulators are fueling the dispute.

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"It is not necessary to do anything"

The imperative tool official is so pressing. The demand is not new : since the beginning of the discussions, the trade unions call for simulations, but have failed to get them. And for good reason, the promise is far from simple to implement. "Want to individualize all the careers in an online tool, it is kafkaesque", died of a connoisseur.

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"It's complicated, sputtered also on Wednesday, a ministerial adviser. Integrate all of the individual situations, career paths, in a tool, is complex. Someone was able to do a little liberal, a little bit of labour... This is a major issue to make people understand how it'll work, but it is not necessary to do anything", added the latter, then all of the parameters of the future system and of the transitions are also not stabilized. All in all, the simulator is not able to see the day before Christmas, recognizes this advisor. At best, it will be available three to six months after the passing of the act, or at the earliest in September 2020.

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For the time being, the teams of the high commissioner are working to have a maximum of "event types", like the nine examples that were included in the report of Jean-Paul Delevoye in July. And that had already generated a lot of debate. These items, requested by Édouard Philippe on Wednesday night in front of the parliamentarians of the majority, must be known "before the 18 December". And this time, no question of hanging around.