Jean knows he is getting paid high pensionspecifically 2,500 euros per month, higher than average. In large part it is because he has worked for 43 years in the banking sector, where he earned a good salary. Now, although the amount is higher than that of an average retiree, he admits that he does not feel lucky, much less “well-off.”
The reason is because when you receive the French Social Security benefityou must face a series of fixed expenses every month. Starting with the Real Estate Tax, electricity or purchases, Jean reviews all the money he spends in the first days of each month. “When I pay everything I have about 700 euros a month left to live on and be able to help my grandchildren, I am not a well-off retiree,” he highlighted in an interview for the network. RMC.
In the program he recognizes that he receives a pension “above average” but he finds himself in the middle of a complicated context, where in France public debt only grows and the retirees themselves have already shown solidarity, accepting a cut in their pensions if necessary, as they claim in the aforementioned medium.
“Retired people are not rich”
The cut in pensions proposed in France is not a valid option for Jean, who maintains that “retirees are not rich” and that the solution to the debt problem cannot be to cut scissors on their benefits.
Because he considers that what he has, he has earned by working more than 40 years in the bank, since he is from that generation that managed to chain together long careers. You also can’t afford to lose purchasing power. Housing, shopping basket or electricity do not stop rising.
A position that contrasts with the data that has been published by the IFOP institute, which ensures that 52% of retirees in France agree that their pension should be lowered in order to clean up public accounts.
Pensions account for 14% of GDP
The Minister of Social Security, Inclusion and Migration, Elma Saiz, confirmed a few days ago that spending on pensions in Spain will be 14% on GDP until 2050. In France, the figure is the same and they represent a disbursement of 400,000 million euros per year to the public coffers, as published by RMC.
The same study cited above reflects that young people perceive a growing imbalance between their salaries and the pensions of the elderly.
A worker answers Jean: “I don’t earn 2,500 euros working”
Sebastián, a physiotherapist, has responded to Jean’s statements on the television network. “I don’t earn 2,500 euros working,” he said. Pierre Rondeau, economist, also wanted to contribute his point of view to the debate: “With 2,500 euros a month, this retiree is above 50% of French seniors.”
One of the traits that characterizes people of this age is that they have a strong saving capacity, partly marked by a more complicated life than that of today’s young people.