The National Assembly on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of the LR bill, which allows to increase the pensions of self-employed farmers from 2026 by changing the way of calculating their pension.
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The text provides:extend to unpaid agricultural workers“, in particular, operations managers and “cooperating spouses“, “calculation of the basic pension on the only twenty-five best years”, and no longer over their entire career. Retired farm managers receive an average of €1,079 gross for a full career (excluding retroactive), according to the Mutualité sociale agricole (MSA) elements.
“€580 is the gross pension difference seen each month between a retired farmer and a retired worker“, the reporter of the text, Eisen Julien Dive, emphasized at the opening of the debates. it’s a “a horrifying admission of the failure of our old age insurance system“for profession”restrictive working conditions“back”two-thirds of farmers who do not take more than three consecutive days off per year“, he added.
To get the text passed and narrowly rejected in committee, Julien Dive had amended January 2026, no longer 2024, to phase in the measure. It is “give time to the Mutualité sociale agricoleadapt to the new way of calculation. Labor Minister Olivier Dussopt said he was in favor of the bill as amended, seeing in it “republican compromise“.
“The attractiveness of the profession»
The president of the Communist group, André Chassin, expressed his support for Julien Dive’s text with a semi-cart.We’ll raise our hands or even our fists to vote yeshe began. From LFI to RN, all elected officials welcomed the measure and “joint construction“for the profession”.essential“Although some bemoaned the delay from 2024 to 2026.”Adoption before legal retirement age is now our priority“, confirmed in the press release of FNSEA, which sees in this reform;a powerful lever for sustainability of operations“.
“The topic is decisive for the attractiveness of the profession”, claimed Julien Dive, while one in two farmers will reach retirement age by 2030. According to Luke Smessert, FNSEA vice president in charge of pension affairs, farmers were considered pensioners.second class“because historically.retirees had a garden, even a right to subsistence plots“, in addition to the rents of their lands or the fruits of the transfer of their exploitation.
Otherwise, “Regarding career recovery, the Mutualité sociale agricole recognizes that we are increasingly becoming polypensioners, sometimes with investments from three funds.“, he explained to AFP before the session.
Source: Le Figaro
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