progressive retirement is now accessible from the age of 60

This system has been extended by decree and allows employees to reduce their working time while continuing to contribute.

Working much less in recent years before retirement is the principle of progressive retirement. From Monday, September 1, a decree comes into force to authorize it from 60 years when it was necessary to wait 62 years. One condition: having validated most of its contribution quarters (150 quarters validated out of the 169 to 172 necessary to leave at full rate depending on the year of birth). For the Minister of Labor, Astrid Panosyan-Bouvet, it is the way to make us work as long as possible.

At MSA, agricultural social security, many employees were looking forward to the measure. When she returns from vacation a few weeks ago, Géraldine Carta, employee of the MSA of Nevers, in Nièvre, for 24 years, discovers by discussing with her colleagues that the age of progressive retirement is advanced. A relief for her which must work a year and a half more since the pension reform.

As soon as she celebrates her 60th birthday in April, she will request. “Everything goes very quickly, everything is changing a lot. We are asked more and more. It is starting to be heavy over the years and it is starting to be more and more painful.” She wants more time to travel and enjoy her grandchildren. She would therefore like to work three days a week for which she will continue to receive her salary and contribute for her retirement. The other two days, she will receive part of her pension in advance.

At 400 kilometers, at the MSA in Saintes in Charente-Maritime, Valérie Tiburce, 60-year-old, wants to ask for exactly the same thing. “I want to enjoy my time while I am still physically in good working orderexplains Valérie Tiburce. I was touched personally by early deaths, including my husband. So now, I want to bounce back on this too and tell myself that it can happen to others. So let’s take advantage of it while you can do it. ” Valérie already knows that she will lose around 400 euros on her monthly salary by going into gradual retreat but she says that she is ready to make this sacrifice.

These two testimonies are far from isolated. The system is very successful, assures the CFDT, the majority union at the MSA. A way to mitigate the effects of pension reform which has pushed the legal departure age to 64 years old. “If they are really forced to stay full until the end when they are used emotionally or intellectually, we will have work stoppagesexplains Stéphanie Chrétien, representative of the CFDT to agricultural social security. So we weigh on the sickness regime something that should have been taken by the retirement scheme. So it’s a little bit the system of communicating vases that is not satisfactory. “

Like Géraldine and Valérie, a little less than one in ten employees is potentially concerned by the progressive retirement at the MSA.