The pensions monitoring committee presented its annual opinion on Thursday, recommending that pensions be under-indexed by 2 points below inflation to reduce the deficit.
The pensions monitoring committee, made up of five experts attached to Matignon, renewed its proposal to freeze retirement pensions until 2030. The measure aims to rebalance the system while awaiting structural reforms.
Basic pensions are revalued each year on January 1 according to inflation. They rose by 0.9 percent in 2026, after 2.2 percent in 2025 and 5.3 percent in 2024. Retirement spending amounts to about 400 billion euros per year.
The recommendation was included in the initial draft of the 2026 social security financing bill but was removed by parliamentarians. It had already been put forward last year by the same committee.
