Budget 2027: in committee, deputies to reform the increase in pensions from three children

This Friday, October 16, the deputies approved in committee a reform of the increase in retirement pensions from three children, the government wishing to replace this system with a flat rate, today calculated in proportion to the pension.

The measure, which appears in the draft Social Security budget for 2027, is particularly controversial in the army, with the chief of staff having warned of a risk of “massive” departures in the face of the reduction in certain pensions.

This vote in the Social Affairs Committee is only a first indication, since the deputies will start from the initial text in the hemicycle on Tuesday. Currently, parents who have had or adopted at least three children benefit from a 10% pension increase, a system designed to compensate for the costs associated with a large family. But it tends to increase inequalities between men and women: since it is proportional to the pension, it is more favorable to men, who have higher pensions on average.

The government therefore proposes to replace, from July 1, 2027, this proportional increase with a flat-rate allowance, identical for men and women and the amount of which would be determined by decree. The measure would be budgetary neutral, promises the government. He argues that this system will benefit modest pensions, mainly received by women.

But “this risks penalizing the basic pension level of a large number of people,” argued Thibault Bazin (LR), mentioning in particular civil servants. “And you never think on a household scale,” he added. “The world has still changed,” replied Sandrine Runel (PS), and there is “no guarantee” that women “are in a home” and therefore benefit from the retirement pension “from the father of their children”.